Who looks at Horus and Seth
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Maat-Hor-Setech M33.t-hr. (W) -Stḫ The the Horus and Seth looks |
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Maat-Hor M33.t-Ḥr. (W) Who looks at Horus |
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The one who watches Horus and Seth is an ancient Egyptian title that all queens wore and that is first attested in the Old Kingdom . In the simple form “who looks at Horus ” the title has been used since the 1st dynasty and was the most important title of a wife of the king at that time.
" Who looks at Horus and Seth " remained after the 3rd dynasty next to the title "King Wife" ( Hemet-nisut ) one of the central titles of royal wives. The title is still occasionally attested in the Middle Kingdom . The phrase Horus-Seth refers to the ruler and testifies that the king was viewed as the embodiment of both deities.
The title is comparable to the king's Nebti name . There, too, a symbolic duality emerges that refers to two coexisting imperial deities, in this case Nechbet and Wadjet .
See also
literature
- Silke Roth: The royal mothers of ancient Egypt. From the early period to the end of the 12th Dynasty (= Egypt and Old Testament. Volume 46). Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 2001, ISBN 3-447-04368-7 , pp. 38-39 (also: Mainz, Univ., Diss., 1997).
- Toby AH Wilkinson: Early Dynastic Egypt. Routledge, London et al. 2001, ISBN 0-415-26011-6 , p. 203.
- Hermann A. Schlögl : The Old Egypt (= Beck'sche series 2305 CH Beck knowledge ). Beck, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-406-48005-5 , p. 28.