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Sennefer (mayor of Thebes)

Sennefer, also rendered Sennufer, was Mayor of Thebes under Amenhotep II in the mid-18th Dynasty, owner of tomb TT96 at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, known as the vineyard tomb for its painted grapevine ceiling.

Sennefer (treasurer)

Sennefer, also written Senneferi, was a royal treasurer of Egypt's 18th Dynasty who served as chancellor of the king in Thebes under Thutmose III, around 1430 BC, and was buried in tomb TT99 at Luxor.

Senseneb

Senseneb was an Egyptian royal woman of the late Seventeenth and early Eighteenth Dynasty, attested as the mother of Pharaoh Thutmose I in a painted relief from Deir el-Bahri.

Senusret (vizier)

Senusret was a vizier of Egypt in the Twelfth Dynasty under kings Senusret I and Amenemhat II, known from a stela in the Louvre and a tomb at Lisht.

Senusret I

Senusret I, also known as Sesostris I or Senwosret I, was the second king of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty, ruling about 45 years and conquering Lower Nubia.

Senusret II

Senusret II, also known as Sesostris II, was the fourth pharaoh of Egypt's Twelfth Dynasty, remembered for Faiyum irrigation works and his pyramid at el-Lahun.

Senusret III

Senusret III, also Senwosret III or Sesostris III, was a Twelfth Dynasty pharaoh of Egypt who ruled in the 19th century BC and led repeated military campaigns into Nubia.

Senusretankh

Senusretankh, also known as Sesostris-ankh, was a Middle Kingdom Egyptian official who held the office of Chief Priest of Ptah, the high priesthood of Memphis.

Seqenenre Tao

Seqenenre Tao, also written Seqenenre-Taa II or Tao II, was a Theban king of the late 17th Dynasty who died in the war against the Hyksos.

Serapeum archive

The Serapeum archive, also called the Serapeum papyri, is a bilingual Greek and Demotic papyrus archive found at the Serapeum of Memphis, dating from the late third to mid second century BC.

Serapion (strategos)

Serapion (Σεραπίων) was the strategos, the military governor and admiral, of Cyprus serving Cleopatra VII of Egypt, recorded in 43 BC when he supported Cassius against Dolabella without her consent.

Serethor

Serethor was a royal woman of Egypt's First Dynasty, known only from a funerary stela found in a subsidiary grave within Pharaoh Den's complex at Abydos.

Seshathetep

Seshathetep, called Heti, was an Old Kingdom Egyptian royal official, probably of the Fifth Dynasty, whose inscribed tomb mastaba G 5150 at Giza may attest him as a vizier.

Seshemetka

Seshemetka was a royal woman of Egypt's First Dynasty, known from a single funerary stela found in King Den's funerary complex at Abydos, now in the Louvre.

Seshemnefer III

Seshemnefer III, also printed Seshemnofer III, was a Fifth Dynasty Egyptian official who held the titles king's son of his body, chief justice, and vizier, buried in mastaba G 5170 at Giza.

Seshemnefer IV

Seshemnefer IV, also written Seshemnofer IV, was a high official of the Egyptian Old Kingdom buried at Giza in mastaba Lepsius 53, in the Cemetery en Echelon.

Sesheshet

Sesheshet, also spelled Seshestet, was an Egyptian king's mother, mother of Teti, first king of the Sixth Dynasty, whose pyramid was found at Saqqara in 2008.

Seshseshet (daughter of Teti)

Seshseshet, also known as Watetkhethor, was an Egyptian royal princess of the Sixth Dynasty, eldest daughter of King Teti and wife of the vizier Mereruka.

Set (deity)

Set (Seth, Sutekh), ancient Egyptian god of the desert, storms, chaos, and foreign lands, brother and slayer of Osiris and rival of Horus, yet also defender of Ra against Apophis and patron of Peribsen and the Ramessides.

Setau (viceroy of Kush)

Setau was a 19th Dynasty Egyptian official who served Ramesses II as High Steward of Amun at Thebes and later as Viceroy of Kush over Nubia.

Setepenre (daughter of Akhenaten)

Setepenre, also rendered Sotepenre, was an ancient Egyptian princess, the sixth and youngest daughter of the pharaoh Akhenaten and Nefertiti, last attested in Year 12.

Seth Meribre

Seth Meribre was a pharaoh of the Thirteenth Dynasty of ancient Egypt, dated to 1749 BC in Kim Ryholt's chronology and known from a single Cairo Museum lintel.

Seti (commander)

Seti, also written Suti, was an ancient Egyptian military commander of the late 18th Dynasty, the father of the future pharaoh Ramesses I and the grandfather of Seti I.

Seti (viceroy of Kush)

Seti was a Viceroy of Kush, the official who governed Egyptian-held Nubia under Pharaoh Siptah at the end of the 19th Dynasty, around 1197 to 1191 BC.

Seti I

Seti I (Sethos I, Menmaatra), second pharaoh of Egypt's 19th Dynasty (c. 1301–1290 BCE by one scheme), father of Ramesses II; builder of tomb KV17, the Abydos temple with its 76-name king list, and the Osireion.

Seti II

Seti II (Sety Merenptah, Userkheperure), fifth pharaoh of Egypt's 19th Dynasty, c. 1200/1199–1194/93 BC; son of Merenptah, rival of Amenmesse in Upper Egypt, tomb KV15, mummy in KV35.

Seti-Merenptah

Seti-Merenptah was a prince of Egypt's Nineteenth Dynasty, son and heir of the pharaoh Seti II, attested only on the Triple Bark Shrine at Karnak.

Setibhor

Setibhor was a queen consort of the Fifth Dynasty pharaoh Djedkare Isesi of ancient Egypt, known only from her pyramid complex at South Saqqara, identified in 2018.

Setka (prince)

Setka was a prince of ancient Egypt's Fourth Dynasty, an eldest son of king Djedefre, known almost entirely from a rose granite scribe statuette in the Louvre.

Setnakhte

Setnakhte (Sethnakht), pharaoh c. 1185-1182 BC, founded Egypt's Twentieth Dynasty after the contested end of the Nineteenth, fathered Ramesses III, and is known chiefly from the Elephantine Stela, Papyrus Harris I, and the usurped tomb KV14.