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Seth name en · NOUN

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1. (historical) A serekh name that features the figure of the god Set atop the serekh.
   • After the original union, a period of scission followed under the second dynasty when pharaoh Sekhem returned to the worship of Seth and changed his Horus name to the Seth name, Peribsen. 1983, Paul Ghalioungui, The Physicians of Pharaonic Egypt, page 88:
   • Seth name: stẖ pr(w) ib.sn (per(u) ib.sen), Seth, (for whom ?) their will has come forth 2013, Ronald J. Leprohon, The Great Name: Ancient Egyptian Royal Titulary, page 29:
   • So far as could be checked, only one king took a separate Seth name besides his Horus name. […] The Horus name of this king was Sekhemib and his Seth name was Peribsen. 1967, Herman te Velde, Seth, God of Confusion: A Study of His Role in Egyptian Mythology and Religion (volume 6 of Probleme der Ägyptologie), page 72
   • The intriguing feature of the writing of Peribsen’s name here is that, on the serekh, the Horus falcon has been replaced by the animal of Seth, the enemy of Osiris; some have suggested that an otherwise little-known Second Dynasty king with the Horus name of Sekhemib could have later adopted the Seth name Peribsen. 2006, The British Museum, Masterpieces of Ancient Egypt, page 42:

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