Basepef
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B3 (s) p = f ram of his threshing floor |
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Basepef ( German : " Widder its antenna ") is shortened, even Bapef, is a deity of the Egyptian mythology . It is a very old, ram-shaped harvest god. His admiration can be proven by an imprint of a seal as early as the 1st dynasty (Thinite period, around 3000–2850 BC). Further evidence can be found on vessel inscriptions that were found in the step pyramid of Djoser ( 3rd dynasty ) in Saqqara .
The office of worshiper of Basepef seems to have been held exclusively by queens in the further course of the Old Kingdom , for example the title can be found in Hetepheres II and Meresanch III. Perhaps it also appears in the pyramid texts (Proverbs 334a), but this is not certain, as the corresponding text passage in the pyramid of Teti is badly damaged at the relevant point.
After the end of the Old Kingdom, the worship of this god seems to have come to a standstill, only in the 18th dynasty does he reappear in an archaic title by Tiaa , mother of Thutmose IV . A final mention is known from the Ptolemaic Hathor temple in Dendera .
Except in the earliest records, Basepef's name is consistently written without the "s" character.
See also
literature
- Wolfgang Helck : Basepef. In: Wolfgang Helck, Wolfhart Westendorf (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie. Vol. 7, Otto Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden 1992, column 1.