Arensnuphis
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Iri-hemes-nefer Jrj-ḥms-nfr The good companion (of Sebiumeker ) |
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Arensnuphis (also Arsnuphis or Harensnuphis ) was a Nubian deity from Ptolemaic - Roman times.
Name meaning
The word "Arensnuphis" is the Greek form of the ancient Egyptian "Iri-hemes-nefer" and means " the good companion ". This was primarily an epithet of the god Shu in sub- Nubian temples from Ptolemaic-Roman times and of Horus and served as a distinction between the Nubian and the Egyptian Shu or Horus. He was therefore included a husband and brother of Tefnut with which he drew a legend, from Nubia to Egypt.
Occur
He mostly appears as a human god who stands, for example, on a crocodile with a constricted mouth. He can also be seen with an Atef crown , a what scepter and an ankh sign. Less common, however, is its appearance as a lion walking on a pylon . In Philae , in Ptolemaic times, he owned a dromos "cheft-hor" and the small temple " House of the Tooth ", where he was considered a form of the Nubian deity Dedun . Tiberius finally decorated the temple.
In Philae arensnuphis was due in the nickname " beautiful hunter, lord of Punt " and as a human multiform God with Tatenen -Krone " good fellow in Abaton ". In addition, Arensnuphis is recorded on Philae as Amun and in his embodiment of Horus as a " good companion in Nubia ". In Philae, additional epithets are attested: “ the great wind ”, “ that comes as a north wind ”, “ that comes from Nubia ”, “ that creates heaven ” and “ heir to Re ”.
Further south, Arensnuphis often appears together with the god Sebiumeker as guardian deity in front of Meroitic temples, with Sebiumeker as patron of the left temple and Arensnuphis as patron of the right temple. For example in Musawwarat , in Naqa and in front of the Isis temple in Meroe . In Musawwarat he wears a four-feathered crown with a tight-fitting cap and a long ornate robe; in the hands there are several ankh symbols, a what-scepter , a bouquet of plants and a gazelle. Angelika Lohwasser sees great similarities in this iconography with that of the ancient Egyptian god Onuris von This . Inge Hoffmann refers in this context to the accompanying inscription in which Arensnuphis is referred to as " the good companion, Lord of Abaton ..., at the head of Bigeh " and can therefore be located as the " God of the twelve-mile country " in the border area of Philae is.
origin
The origin of the god is very controversial. Because of its similarity to Onuris, it could have come from Egypt. The earliest ancient Egyptian mention of a Hem-netjer priest of " Khnum and Arensnuphis " dates back to the time of the strings . In the Meroitic heartland, Arensnuphis appeared before the Ptolemaic period . It is also possible that there were two forms. An Egyptian in Lower Nubia , which is mainly recorded in Elephantine , and an independent Meroitic in Upper Nubia.
In later times, Arensnuphis in Nubia was ousted by Osiris .
See also
literature
- Hans Bonnet : Real Lexicon of Egyptian Religious History. de Gruyter, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-11-016884-7 , pp. 54-55, → Arsnuphis .
- Inge Hoffmann: The Meroitic religion: Sebuimeker, Sabomakal, Arensnuphis. In: Hildegard Temporini: Rise and Fall of the Roman World. Part 1: From the beginnings of Rome to the end of the republic. De Gruyter, Berlin 1972, ISBN 3-11-001885-3 , pp. 2836-2838.
- Christian Leitz u. a .: Lexicon of the Egyptian gods and names of gods . (LGG) Vol. 1, Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1146-8 , pp. 409-410.
- Angelika Lohwasser : The gods in the kingdom of Kusch. Part II: The Meroitic Gods. In: Communications of the Sudan Archaeological Society in Berlin eV (MittSAG) Issue 7, 1997, pp. 32–38.
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Remarks
- ↑ z. B. in Dakka and Dendur .
- ↑ One of his surnames was "who went from her (Tefnut) from Kenset to the Abaton" , Bonnet: Reallexikon , pp. 54–55, → Arsnuphis