Irsu in hieroglyphs | |||||||
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Jr-sw (contested) "He who made himself" | |||||||
Sw Proper name | |||||||
"Irsu" written in hieratic on the Papyrus Harris |
Irsu (Ancient Egyptian: jr-sw, "he who made himself"; alternatively Su) is the name used in Papyrus Harris I to designate a Shasu who became overlord of a group of local rulers nominally under Egyptian control, at a time of unrest between the Nineteenth and Twentieth Dynasties. The reading of the name is contested and the man may instead have simply been called Su. The events in which Irsu (or Su) participated likely took place outside of the Nile Valley, in the Asiatic territories of Egypt's empire.