Semat

Semat was an Ancient Egyptian Queen, who was a wife of the King Den. She was buried near him in Abydos.

Semat in hieroglyphs
F36B1

Semat
Sm3.t
The Companion[1]

Very little is known about Semat besides a stela discovered near Den's tomb in Abydos. She held the titles of

G5U1
E21
D36
M33.t-Ḥr.(w)
Maat-Hor
"She who sees Horus"
Rnm.t-Stš
Renmet-Setesh
"She who carries Seth"

Both of these titles were associated with queens in ancient Egypt.[2] Semat was not the only woman identified from funerary stela. Other women whose funerary stela were found near Den's tomb are Seshemetka and Serethor.[3]

Until the Second World War the stela was in the Egyptian Museum of Berlin, but was destroyed in the war.[4]

References
  1. Silke Roth: Die Königsmütter des Alten Ägypten. P 382.
  2. Grajetzki, Ancient Egyptian Queens: A Hieroglyphic Dictionary, Golden House Publications, London, 2005, ISBN 978-0-9547218-9-3
  3. Tyldesley, Joyce. Chronicle of the Queens of Egypt. Thames & Hudson. 2006. ISBN 0-500-05145-3
    • Geoffrey Thorndike Martin: Umm el-Qaab VII, Private Stelae of the Early Dynastic Period from the Royal Cemetery at Abydos, Archäologischer Veröffentlichungen 123, Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-447-06256-5, p. 100-101, no. 129, pl. 35.
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