Ammit-net-amentet
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Ammit-net-amentet ˁmmyt-nt-jmntt The eater of the west |
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Ammit-net-amentet is documented as an ancient Egyptian underworld goddess in this name variant only in the string dynasty and the Greco-Roman period .
Receipts and representations
Ammit-net-Amentet will from the 26th dynasty originating Papyrus Magique as menacing creatures called. In the coffin of the Padiamunipet she acts as a corpse eater during the trial of the court of death . In addition, in Greco-Roman times she was invoked in a book of hours as the goddess of the 5th night hour .
Iconographically , Ammit-net-amentet also appears in the Book of the Dead verse 125 as a hybrid creature with the head of a crocodile and the body of a lion crouching on a pedestal . The tradition of the ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead ended in the Ptolemaic period , which explains the lack of evidence for Ammit-net-amentet in the further course of the Greco-Roman period.
See also
literature
- Christian Leitz u. a .: LGG , Vol. 2 . Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 9-0429-1147-6 , p. 115.
- Christine Seeber: Judgment of the Dead In: Investigations into the representation of the judgment of the dead in ancient Egypt . Deutscher Kunstverlag, Munich 1976, ISBN 3-4220-0828-4 , pp. 163-186.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Representation in Papyrus Bodmer 104 , Totenbuchspruch 125 and in the coffin of Padiamunipet; 332-330 BC Chr. From Tjaru / Tell Abu-Seifa / Tell Abu-Sefeh .