The goddess of the West.

 

The goddess of the West.

This limestone relief fragment depicts the <A HREF="God">goddess</A> Imentet. She was the personification of the West and the protective <A HREF="God">goddess</A> of the Theban necropolis. She is depicted as a woman with the hieroglyph for the west on her head, and appears to be a form of the <A HREF="God">goddess</A> Hathor. Her most important duty was to receive and to protect the dead in the necropolis. She never had her own cult.

L. Speleers, Recueil des inscriptions égyptiennes des Musées Royaux du Cinquantenaire à Bruxelles, Bruxelles 1923, 34 nº 112

Het leven na de dood in het oude Egypte (Exposition), Tongres 1969, 23 nº 1

Chr. Karlshausen, Une perruque divine du Nouvel Empire: la coiffure à volants, in Ahmosiadès, Mélanges Vandersleyen, Bruxelles 1992, 158-159

inventory number E.3019

KMKG - MRAH

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