zosir

Updated: June 6, 2025

The Sinaitic peninsula, the province of Mafkat or "Malachite," as it was called, had been in the possession of the Egyptians since the time of Zosir of the third dynasty, and it continued to be regarded as part of the Egyptian kingdom up to the age of the Ptolemies.

A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce - Patriarchal Palestine