Semat () was an
Ancient Egypt
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ian 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 ( ) or stela ( )The plural in English is sometimes stelai ( ) based on direct transliteration of the Greek, sometimes stelae or stelæ ( ) based on the inflection of Greek nouns in Latin, and sometimes anglicized to steles ( ) or stela ...
discovered near Den's tomb in Abydos. She held the titles of
Both of these titles were associated with queens in ancient
Egypt
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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.
The stela was in the
Egyptian Museum of Berlin
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, but was destroyed during
World War 2
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.
[*]Geoffrey Thorndike Martin
Geoffrey Almeric Thorndike Martin (28 May 1934 – 7 March 2022) was a British egyptologist, Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology Emeritus, University College, London, Joint Field Director of the Amarna Royal Tombs Project and ...
: ''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(English)
{{Queens of Ancient Egypt
30th-century BC women
Queens consort of the First Dynasty of Egypt
Den (pharaoh)