Semat was an Ancient Egyptian Queen, who was a wife of the King Den. She was buried near him in Abydos. Very little is known about Semat besides a

stela A stele ( ),Anglicized plural steles ( ); Greek plural stelai ( ), from Greek , ''stēlē''. The Greek plural is written , ''stēlai'', but this is only rarely encountered in English. or occasionally stela (plural ''stelas'' or ''stelæ''), wh ...

discovered near Den's tomb in Abydos. She held the titles of Both of these titles were associated with queens in ancient

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. Semat was not the only woman identified from funerary stela. Other women whose funerary stela were found near Den's tomb are Seshemetka and Serethor. Until the Second World War the stela was in the

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, but was destroyed in the war.*Geoffrey Thorndike Martin: ''Umm el-Qaab VII, Private Stelae of the Early Dynastic Period from the Royal Cemetery at Abydos'', Archäologischer Veröffentlichungen 123, Wiesbaden 2011, , p. 100-101, no. 129, pl. 35.

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* Francesco Raffaele
Queen Semat
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{{Queens of Ancient Egypt 30th-century BC women Queens consort of the First Dynasty of Egypt Den (pharaoh)