Ta-Seti (''Land of the bow'', also Ta Khentit, ''the Frontier'' or ''Borderland'') was the first nome (administrative division) of Upper Egypt, one of 42 nomoi in Ancient Egypt., Egypt Ancient.net, accessdate=2010-07-14
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Digital Egypt for Universities, accessdate=2010-07-14 Ta-Seti marked the border area towards Nubia, and the name was also used to refer to Nubia itself.

History

Every nome was ruled by a nomarch (provincial governor), who answered directly to the pharaoh. The area of the district was about 2 ''cha-ta'' (about 5.5 hectare / 4.8 acres; 1 cha-ta equals roughly 2.75 hectare / 2.4 acres) and about 10,5 ''iteru'' (about 112 km / 69,6 miles, 1 iteru equals roughly 10,5 km / 6.2 miles) in length.
Faszination Ägypten (in German), accessdate=2010-07-14 The ''Niwt'' (main city) was Abu /

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(part of modern Aswan) and among other cities were P'aaleq / Philae (modern Philae), Sunet / Syene (modern Aswan) and Pa-Sebek / Omboi (modern Kom Ombo). Every ''niwt'' had a ''Het net'' (temple) dedicated to the chief

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and a ''Heqa het'' (nomarchs residence). The district's main deity was

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and among others major deities were Anuket, Arensnuphis, Hathor, Isis, Khnum, Mandulis, Satet and Sobek. Today the area is part of the Aswan Governorate. Historical texts from the Middle Kingdom of Egypt mention the mother of Amenemhat I, founder of the Twelfth Dynasty, being from the Elephantine Egyptian nome Ta-Seti. Many scholars have argued that Amenemhat I's mother was of Nubian origin. The identity of the Ta-Seti people has not yet been definitively established. From what is known today, the Ta-Seti are believed to have spoken a

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language.

Nomarchs of Ta-Seti

The following is a partial genealogy of the nomarchs of Ta-Seti during the

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. The nomarchs are underlined.

References

*Helck, Wolfgang; Westendorf, Wolfhart: ''Lexikon der Ägyptologie''. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 1977. {{ISBN, 3-447-01876-3

External links

About the nomoi of EgyptHieroglyphs of the nomoi
Nomes of ancient Egypt