Seti II

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Seti II
Rule1200 - 1194 BC.
PredecessorHalf brother? Amenmesse
FatherMerenptah
MotherQueen Istnofret II
Nomen (meaning of name)He of the God Seth
Dynasty19th Dynasty
ConsortsTiaa
Takhat II, Tawosret
concubine Sutailja
Capital cityMemphis
Achievementsminor monuments
Burial Valley of Kings - KV15
Reburied in Deir el Bahri cache KV35
SuccesorSon Siptah out of concubine Sutailja

  • he ordered to remove decorations from Amenmesse’s tomb KV10 in the Valley of Kings.
  • He continued military and political campaigns in Nubia and the Sinai, and his name has been found in inscriptions there.
  • His building program is limited to some work in the temple of Mut, and in Karnak he constructed for a new way station of the sacred barques in the First Court of the temple
  • He also erected two obelisks at Karnak, west of the 1st Pylon, before the "Avenue of Ram-headed Sphinxes"

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