Sehel Island

Sehelnarti (short form also Sehel, ancient Egyptian Setjet; Greek Satis ) is the name of the Nile River, which is about three kilometers southwest of Aswan and two kilometers southwest of Elephantine away. The name of the island in the Nile is derived from one of the local places with the name Sehel.

On Sehelnarti there are several hundred inscriptions and petroglyphs, which are mostly dedicated to the divine couple Khnum and Satis and her daughter Anukis. The numerous font finds come from our community in ancient Egypt, which appealed for a pause here on their way to and from Nubia and used this opportunity for an inscription or rock painting.

Sehelnarti acted mythological ancient Egypt as one of the southernmost places as a region of the sources of the Nile, from which the Nile flood was born. Here, archaeologists found the famous Hungersnotstele, a manufactured forgery in the Ptolemaic period a land deed with which the priesthood wanted to establish historical claims on Sehelnarti.