Sety I (Part 6b).
Standards and Practices. The early 19th Dynasty army was a well-organised machine, with distinct units (the zA ‘company’) and officers (e.g., chai sereet, ‘Standard Bearers’). Papyrus archives record the daily business of military life, like the Standard Bearer Mai-Sety / Mai-Sutekhy, the company scribe User-Hat, and the royal administrators that monitored food deliveries, rations, and supplies of essential goods…
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Episode Details:
- Date: c. 1300 BCE.
- Music intro and interludes: Luke Chaos.
- Music outro: Bettina Joy de Guzman (Ancient Lyric).
- Texts: Kenneth Kitchen’s Ramesside Inscriptionsvolume 1. Hieroglyph versions at Internet Archive, English translations at Abercromby Press.
- Peter Brand, Ramesses II: Egypt’s Ultimate Pharaoh, out now from Lockwood Press.
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An army/police standard excavated at Amarna (Kemp, 2012).
The northeast Delta in the early 19th Dynasty, with relevant sites (Google Earth).
A letter from Mai-Sety / Mai-Sutekhy, now in Cairo Museum (Allam, 1987).
Papyrus accounts recording deliveries, reign of Sety I (British Museum).
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