ROTENNU. A Syrian people who were repeatedly defeated and subjugated by kings of the XVIIIth and later dynasties. They were subdivided into the Upper and Lower Rotennu, and their Egyptian name was [glyphs] RETHENNU. ^{36} SACCARAH. A modern village near the site of ancient Memphis with a number of famous pyramids. The name is undoubtedly derived from that of the god Ptah-_Sokar_-Osiris. ^{91} SA-EL-HAJAR. The modern name of Saïs. ^{92} SAÏS. The capital of the fifth nome of Lower Egypt, the Egyptian [glyphs] SA·T, and the Coptic [Coptic: sai] [saï]. Nothing now remains but a mass of débris. ^{4 10 92} SAÎU·T. The Egyptian name of Sioot, which see. ^{89} SALLUSTIAN OBELISK. An obelisk in Rome standing opposite the church of Santa Trinita dei Monti. It is a poor Roman copy of the Piazza del Popolo Obelisk, and has three columns of hieroglyphs on it, together with the cartouches of Seti I. and Ramses II. It was re-erected by Pius VI. in 1789. ^{9} SÂN. The modern name of Tanis, which see. ^{11} {146}SÂN OBELISKS. As many as thirteen fragments of perhaps four obelisks are still at Tanis (Sân). These obelisks appear to have been erected by Ramses II. ^{11} SARBUT-EL-KHEDEM OBELISK. An erect obelisk in the Sinaitic Peninsula, on the way from Suez to Mount Sinai. The hieroglyphs on it are partially obliterated. ^{9} SA·T. The Egyptian name of Saïs, which see. ^{92} SEBEK. The crocodile-headed deity and a form of Râ. He was specially worshiped in the Fayoom, and his Egyptian name was [glyphs] SEBEK. ^{90} SEBEK-RÂ. A combination of the gods Sebek and Râ, the local deity of Ombos. ^{29} SEKHET. A lion-headed goddess and the wife of Ptah. As a destroying deity her name is [glyphs] SEKHET, but as a goddess of love it was [glyphs] BAST, or, as the Greeks called her, Pasht. She was usually identified with Diana. (^{92 98 103}) SEKTET BOAT. The boat of the evening-sun Tum, in which he was thought to pass over the heavens. In Egyptian the word is written [glyphs] SEKTET. ^{22} SENI·T. The Egyptian name of Esneh, which see. ^{87} SET or SUTEKH. The national god of the Hyksos or the Shepherd kings of Asia, whose worship was forced on the Egyptians. He was the personification of evil, and was represented as an ass-headed deity with the usual divine insignia. He was the sworn enemy of Horus, whose father (Osiris) he had slain, and is identified with the devil. His picture, [glyphs], was afterwards completely erased by the Egyptians from their monuments. His Egyptian name is [glyphs] SET or [glyphs] SUTEKH. ^{87} {147}SETI I. A famous king of the XIXth dynasty and the father of Ramses II. He was an intense worshipper of Set, the devil, and forced his adoration on the people. His many wars carried him into Arabia Felix, Palestine, the Hittite territory, and beyond the Orontes and Euphrates. Out of him and his two successors the ancients fabricated the name Sesostris. His Egyptian name is ^{6 9 86 87 88}