Harsiotef took on a full set of titles based on those of the Egyptian Pharaohs:[2] Horus name: Kanakht Khaemnepet ("Mighty Bull appears in Napata") Nebty Name: Nednetjeru ("Who seeks the council of Gods") Golden Horus Name: Uftikhesutnebut ("Subduer given all the Desert Lands") Prenomen: Sameryamun ("Beloved son of Amun") Nomen: Harsiotef ("Horus Son of his Father") Harsiotef was the son of Queen Atasamale and likely of King Amanineteyerike.

It is possible that King Akhraten was also a son of Harsiotef, and Queen Sakhmakh, the wife of Nastasen, may be his daughter.

The name of this place may be the earliest recorded use of the word Habesha, the etymological basis for English Abyssinia.

The only earlier text which may refer to the term is the mention of a "foreign people from the incense-producing regions" called ḫbstjw during Queen Hatshepsut's time, which scholars assume refers to the land of Punt and the Habesha.

[5] The people of Matit or Matata also fought against the Aksumite king Ezana centuries later.