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Updated: May 27, 2025

Hence we are led to look for the Sekhet Hemat, or salt country, in the borders of the Fayum lake, whence the journey would be southward, and across the desert.

Sir W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie - Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri : First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty

The Lord Steward Meruitensa made two of his followers to go to the Sekhet Hemat, and bring a list of the household of the Sekhti; and its amount was six persons, beside his oxen and his goats, his wheat and his barley, his asses and his dogs; and moreover he gave all that which belonged unto the Hemti to the Sekhti, even all his property and his offices, and the Sekhti was beloved of the king more than all his overseers, and ate of all the good things of the king, with all his household.

Sir W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie - Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri : First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty

Then the Lord Steward Meruitensa sent the governor of the Sekhet Hemat to make provision for the wife of the Sekhti, three rations of corn each day. Then came the Sskhti a second time, and even a third time, unto the Lord Steward Meruitensa; but he told two of his followers to go unto the Sekhti, and seize on him, and beat him with staves. But he came again unto him, even unto six times, and said

Sir W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie - Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri : First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty

There dwelt in the Sekhet Hemat or salt country a peasant called the Sekhti, with his wife and children, his asses and his dogs; and he trafficked in all good things of the Sekhet Hemat to Henenseten. Behold now he went with rushes, natron, and salt, with wood and pods, with stones and seeds, and all good products of the Sekhet Hemat.

Sir W. M. Flinders (William Matthew Flinders) Petrie - Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri : First series, IVth to XIIth dynasty