[4] As Aidan Dodson writes, Setnakhte's accession to power as an usurper is confirmed by a victory stela at Elephantine at Aswan, which shows his rise to power was accompanied by violence and a civil war: The great assembly of the gods is pleased with his plans like Re, since the land had been in confusion....[The great god] stretched out his arm and selected his person, l.p.h., from among the millions, dismissing the hundreds of thousands prior to him....Now his person, l.p.h., was like his father Sutekh, who flexed his arms to rid Egypt of those who had led it astray....Fear of him has seized the hearts of opponents before him: they flee like [flocks] of sparrows with a falcon after them.

They left silver and gold....which they had given to these Asiatics in order for them to bring reinforcements....Their plans failed and the plans were futile, as every god and goddess performed wonders for the good god, proclaiming the [onse]t of a slaughter under him....On Year 2, II Shemu 10 [of king Setnakhte] there were no (more) opponents of his person, l.p.h., in any lands.

[10]Zahi Hawass, the former Secretary General of Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities, declared the discovery to be one of the most important finds of 2006 because "it adjusts the history of the 20th Dynasty and reveals more about the life of Bakenkhunsu.

Setnakhte's Elephantine stela touches on this chaotic period and refers explicitly to the expulsion of certain Asiatics, who fled Egypt, abandoning the gold which they had looted from Egyptian temples.

The Bakenkhunsu stela reveals that it was Setnakhte who began the construction of a Temple of Amun-Re in Karnak which was eventually completed by his son, Ramesses III.

An excerpt of James Henry Breasted's 1906 translation of this document is provided below: Until 2000, Chancellor Bay was considered the only plausible candidate for this Irsu.

1864 found at Deir el-Medina dated to Year 5 records that 'Pharaoh (Siptah) LPH has killed the great enemy, Bay'.

In December 2012, a genetic study conducted by the same researchers who decoded King Tutankhamun's DNA found that Ramesses III, Setnakhte's son and second pharaoh of the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt belonged to Y-DNA E-V38, alternatively known as haplogroup E1b1a.