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ASKUT
region of Nubia. Egyptian Djer Setiu. It appears to have been constructed
during the Middle Kingdom as part of a series of fortresses
from Buhen to Semna by Senusret III to control the native Nubians.
The fortress was abandoned during the Second Intermediate Period
but reused during the New Kingdom. Askut was excavated in
1962–1964 by an expedition from the University of California at Los
Angeles before the site was flooded by Lake Nasser, the lake created
by the Aswan High Dam. See also ANIBA; BUHEN; KUMMA;
MIRGISSA; SEMNA; SHALFAK; URONARTI.
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