Seti

Seti or Suti was an ancient Egyptian soldier during the late 18th Dynasty (14th century BCE), the commander of the army, later mentioned as vizier on monuments of his son, Paramessu, who would later go on to become pharaoh Ramesses I.

Seti, the forefather of the 19th Dynasty, was from a military family in the Nile Delta. According to one theory he is identical with a royal envoy mentioned in the Amarna letters as Šuta. This theory is based on a fragmented votive stela now in the Oriental Institute in Chicago (OI 11456). This fragment is wide and high, its upper part depicts a sitting male and female figure, but only the feet remained intact. Its lower part shows three persons in clothing influenced by the Amarna-style, flanked by Khaemwaset and Ramose. The stela's inscription is: “an offering to the ka of Osiris-Suti, Commander of the Troops of the Lord of the Two Lands”.