Ta-Seti

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Ta-Seti (uppermost) at the "White Chapel" in Karnak
Map of all nomoi in Upper Egypt

Ta-Seti (Land of the bow, also Ta Khentit, the Frontier or Borderland) was the first nome (administrative division) of Upper Egypt, one of 42 nomoi in Ancient Egypt.[1][2][3][4][5][6] Ta-Seti marked the border area towards Nubia, and the name was also used to refer to Nubia itself.[7][8][9][10]

N16
T9A
R12
N24
Ta-Seti
in hieroglyphs

History

Every nome was ruled by a nomarch (provincial governor), who answered directly to the pharaoh.[2][3][4][5]

The area of the district was about 2 cha-ta (about 5.5 hectare / 4.8 acres; 1 cha-ta equals roughly 2.75 hectare / 2.4 acres) and about 10,5 iteru (about 112 km / 69,6 miles, 1 iteru equals roughly 10,5 km / 6.2 miles) in length.[11]

The Niwt (main city) was Abu /

Philae), Sunet / Syene (modern Aswan) and Pa-Sebek / Omboi (modern Kom Ombo).[2][3][4][5][6] Every niwt had a Het net (temple) dedicated to the chief deity and a Heqa het (nomarchs residence).[1]

The district's main deity was

Today the area is part of the Aswan Governorate.

The

Twelfth Dynasty, being from[12] the Elephantine Egyptian nome Ta-Seti.[13][14][15] Many scholars have argued that Amenemhat I's mother was of Nubian origin.[16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]

The identity of the Ta-Seti people has not yet been definitively established. From what is known today, the Ta-Seti are believed to have spoken a

Nomarchs of Ta-Seti

The following is a partial genealogy of the nomarchs of Ta-Seti during the

12th Dynasty. The nomarchs are underlined.[25]

Sarenput IKhemaSatethotep♀
Sarenput IIShemai
Sat-tjeni♀
Heqaib IIIAmenyseneb

References

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  5. ^ a b c d [3], Aldokan.com, accessdate=2010-07-14
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  7. ^ Ancient Nubia: A-Group 3800–3100 BC
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  13. ^ "Ammenemes himself was not a Theban but the son of a woman from Elephantine called Nofret and a priest called Sesostris (‘The man of the Great Goddess’).",Grimal, Nicolas (1994). A History of Ancient Egypt. Wiley-Blackwell (July 19, 1994). p. 159.
  14. ^ "Senusret, a commoner as the father of Amenemhet, his mother, Nefert, came from the area Elephantine."A. Clayton, Peter (2006). Chronicle of the Pharaohs: The Reign-by-Reign Record of the Rulers and Dynasties of Ancient Egypt. Thames & Hudson. p. 78.
  15. ^ "Amenemhet I was a commoner, the son of one Sen- wosret and a woman named NEFRET, listed as prominent members of a family from ELEPHANTINE Island."Bunson, Margaret (2002). Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (Facts on File Library of World History). Facts on File. p. 25.
  16. ^ "The XIIth Dynasty (1991-1786 B.C.E.) originated from the Aswan region. As expected, strong Nubian features and dark coloring are seen in their sculpture and relief work. This dynasty ranks as among the greatest, whose fame far outlived its actual tenure on the throne. Especially interesting, it was a member of this dynasty- that decreed that no Nehsy (riverine Nubian of the principality of Kush), except such as came for trade or diplomatic reasons, should pass by the Egyptian fortress at the southern end of the Second Nile Cataract. Why would this royal family of Nubian ancestry ban other Nubians from coming into Egyptian territory? Because the Egyptian rulers of Nubian ancestry had become Egyptians culturally; as pharaohs, they exhibited typical Egyptian attitudes and adopted typical Egyptian policies."F. J. Yurco. "'Were the ancient Egyptians black or white?'". Biblical Archaeology Review. (Vol 15, no. 5, 1989): 24–9, 58.
  17. ^ General History of Africa Volume II - Ancient civilizations of Africa (ed. G Moktar). UNESCO. p. 152.
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  24. ^ Christopher Ehret, The Civilizations of Africa: A History to 1800, University Press of Virginia, 2002.
  25. ^ "Burial chamber discovered". Ahram Weekly. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
  • Helck, Wolfgang; Westendorf, Wolfhart: Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1977.

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