Sehelnarti

Sehelnarti in hieroglyphics
Setjet Sṯt
Greek	Satis
Famine stele in Sehelnarti

Sehelnarti ( Sehel is the actual name of the island; narti is the island in Nubian , Setjet in ancient Egypt ; Satis in Greek ) is the name of an island in the Nile , which is located about three kilometers southwest of Aswan and two kilometers southwest of Elephantine . The name of the Nile island is derived from one of the localities there called Sehel.

On Sehelnarti there are several hundred inscriptions and rock carvings, most of which are dedicated to the gods Chnum and Satis and their daughter Anukis . The numerous written finds come from travelers in ancient Egyptian times who paused here on their way to and from Nubia and used this opportunity for an inscription or rock carving.

Sehelnarti functioned as one of the southernmost places in ancient Egypt mythologically as the region of the Nile springs from which the Nile flood was born. Here archaeologists found the well-known famine stele , a forgery of a land title deed made in Ptolemaic times with which the priesthood wanted to justify historical claims to Sehelnarti.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Annie Gasse, Vincent Rondot: Les inscriptions de Séhel , Cairo 2007 ISBN 978-2-7247-0434-1 , p. 2

literature

• Francis Amadeus Karl Beyer: An Aremic loan word for "cataract" in the description of Elephantines on the famine stele and considerations for dating the same based on the naming of a Meroitic functionary . In: Gábor Takács: Egyptian and Semito-Hamitic (Afro-Asiatic) Studies: In memoriam Werner Vycichl . Brill, Leiden 2004, ISBN 90-04-13245-7 , pp. 13-32.
• Rainer Hannig : Large Concise Dictionary Egyptian-German: (2800-950 BC) . von Zabern, Mainz 2006, ISBN 3-8053-1771-9 , p. 1187.
• Christian Leitz u. a .: Lexicon of the Egyptian gods and names of gods . (LGG) Volume 6 (= Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta. Volume 115). Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1151-4 , p. 700.

Coordinates: 24 ° 4 '  N , 32 ° 52'  E