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Setjet

The Setjet were a people in conflict with the early Egyptian rulers of the First Dynasty of Egypt. One of the year labels of Pharaoh Djer mentions the "smiting Setjet". Setjet was presumably a region to the northeast, or a region of Western Asia.

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Ivory label bearing the serekh of Pharaoh Hor-Aha. It reports the victory over the "arch-using Setjet-folks" (center) and the visit at the domain "Horus thrives with the cattles" (right). source ↗

The Setjet (Egyptian: Sṯt) were a people in conflict with the early Egyptian rulers of the First Dynasty of Egypt.1 One of the year labels of Pharaoh Djer mentions the "smiting (the land of) Setjet".1 Setjet was presumably a region to the northeast, or a region of Western Asia.12

Seth-Peribsen of the Second Dynasty of Egypt is also mentioned as a conqueror of Setjet, which might have been in this case the city of Sethroë (Heracleopolis Parva).3

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  1. Royal Annals Of Ancient Egypt. Routledge. p. 190. ISBN 978-1-136-60247-4.
  2. Radner, Karen; Moeller, Nadine; Potts, D. T. Oxford History of the Ancient Near East: Volume I: from the Beginnings to Old Kingdom Egypt and the Dynasty of Akkad. Oxford University Press. p. 279. ISBN 978-0-19-068785-4.
  3. Wilkinson, Toby A. H. Early Dynastic Egypt. Routledge. p. 133. ISBN 978-1-134-66420-7.