SETI I (Menma ʿrē-Sety; c. 1303–1290 B.C.E.), Egyptian pharaoh. The second ruler of his line, Seti may be regarded as the real founder of the Nineteenth Dynasty (c. 1304–1195 B.C.E.). Under his direction Egypt reasserted her control over Palestine, the Lebanon region, and southern Syria, which had been
R.O. Faulkner, in: Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, 33 (1947), 34–9; idem, in: CAH2, vol. 2 (1966), 23:4–10; A.H. Gardiner, Egypt of the Pharaohs (1961), 247–55.
[Alan Richard Schulman]
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