Setka (1st dynasty)

Setka (1st Dynasty) in hieroglyphics
Surname	Setka (Set ka) St k3
1st title	Cherep-ah Ḫrp-ˁḥ head of the palace
2nd title	Cherep-per-nisut Ḫrp-pr-njsw.t head of the royal family

Setka was a high ancient Egyptian official who served under King ( Pharaoh ) Wadji in the 1st Dynasty .

He is best known for his grave stele from Abydos . This was once located at his grave, which in turn was one of the side graves at the grave of Wadji. The stele is now in the Oriental Institute Museum (# 6743) in Chicago .

Setka bears titles which distinguish him as “administrator of the royal palace” and “provider of the royal tomb” ( Sechenu-ach ). He is the first official to date under whom the institution Per-nisut (in German "House of the King / Royal House") is mentioned by name, for which Setka was responsible. There is another dignitary named Setka known from Siegel abrollungen. However, this one has different titles and it remains unclear whether both persons are identical.

See also

• Ancient Egyptian official and function titles

literature

• William Matthew Flinders Petrie , Francis Llewellyn Griffith : The royal tombs of the first dynasty. 1900: Part 1. (= Memoir of the Egypt Exploration Fund. Volume 18, ISSN  0307-5109 ). Offices of The Egypt Exploration Fund, London 1900, digitized , p. 8, plate XXXI.
• Wolfgang Helck : Investigations on the Thinite Age (= Ägyptologische Abhandlungen. (ÄA) Vol. 45). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1987, ISBN 3-447-02677-4 , p. 214.
• Petra Andrássy : Investigations into the Egyptian state of the Old Kingdom and its institutions (= Internet contributions to Egyptology and Sudan archeology. Vol. XI ). Berlin / London 2008, ISBN 978-1-906137-08-3 , p. 16 online .
• Geoffrey Thorndike Martin: Umm el-Qaab VII, Private Stelae of the Early Dynastic Period from the Royal Cemetery at Abydos (= Archaeological Publications. 123). Wiesbaden 2011, ISBN 978-3-447-06256-5 , pp. 22-23, No. 8, plate 3.