Reput

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Reputation in hieroglyphics
Predynastics

Repit.png
Early days
= O26 O18 X1

Old empire
= O26 Q3 G43

Reput / Repu
Rpwt / Rpw The sedan chair
= D21
Q3 X1 		O26 O28 O28 O28 W24
O49

Reput-Iunu
Rpwt-Jwnw
The litter of Heliopolis

Reput (also Repu, Reput-Iunu ) referred to in ancient Egypt a portable divine shrine in which the cult image of a deity or a deified person was placed. Reput is documented as a ritual image in the early days . In the pyramid texts it embodied the goddess Nut in her function as Mother of God as "Reput von Helipolis" .

presentation

Fragment of a predynastic palette with a Reput litter

Reput is iconographically documented several times as a portable shrine on a litter . On the front of the shrine, for example, there is a bust of a human-headed deity with cow ears and horns; possibly also with a uraeus snake . She wears an ankh mark around her neck . Her name “Reput” was entered between the bull's feet. On each side a human figure with a bird's head and ram's horns can be seen, which is wrapped in a wide coat.

Mythological connections

Mesu-nesu in hieroglyphics
Predynastics
M23 X1 F31

Mesu-nesu
Msw-nsw (t)
Birth of the King of Upper Egypt

The deified cult image, either made of stone or precious metal , is documented in the early days mostly in connection with the Sedfest , whereby the shrine was occupied by a mummy-like person who was called "mesu-nesu". The insignia carried on palanquins was used in this context on festive occasions of the king and was embedded, for example, as a cult image in the celebrations of the rebirth ritual of the same name ("mesu-nesu") of the " Upper Egyptian king", whereby the special ceremony "mesu-nesu" was committed in the course of the Sedfest. As the person originally pictured in the shrine, the king's female partner is believed to be the mother.

A shrine sedan chair (Reput) is depicted on the “Club Knob of Scorpio II ”. Further representations of reputation can also be found in Narmer . Large scepter knobs decorated with reliefs have been preserved from both rulers . The name Reputs is only partially preserved as [.] P [.] T on the "club pommel of Scorpio II." The litter has lion paws for feet. A human figure can be seen in this litter, wrapped in skin-tight robes and adorned with a long curly wig. The Egyptologist Toby Wilkinson assumes that the cult litter, like other stone images of God, were pulled on sleds and suspected a goddess named Repit in these representations . He translated the name accordingly with "the one on the litter" or "the one from the litter".

Another repute shrine has meanwhile been discovered in Tell el-Farcha . The picture shows an unknown king from the predynastic period who probably wears the characteristic cloak during the Sedfest. In the shrine, which is carried on a litter, a mother is sitting with a child on her lap, which is why Krzysztof Ciałowicz considers the possibility that the person depicted as “Reput” is the king's mother.

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literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Ancient Egyptian Pyramid Texts of the paper impressions and photographs of the Berlin Museum: PT 823d and 2128a.
  2. ^ GD Scott: Archeology with and Art of predynastic times . In: Cahier of the Annales du service des antiquités de l'Égypte. (CASAE) No. 36, 2007, pp. 343-350, fig. 1-2.
  3. ↑ Christian Leitz u. a .: LGG. Vol. 6, Leuven 2002, p. 662.
  4. ↑ Wolfgang Decker, Frank Förster: Annotated bibliography on sport in ancient Egypt. Vol. 2: 1978 - 2000 together with supplements from previous years and including the sport of neighboring cultures . Weidmann, Hildesheim 2002, ISBN 3-615-10013-1 , pp. 72-73.
  5. ↑ Toby AH Wilkinson: Early Dynastic Egypt . Routledge, London 2000, ISBN 0-415-18633-1 , p. 268 ff.
  6. ^ Krzysztof M. Ciałowicz: Gazelles and ostriches from Tell el-Farkha . In: Studies in ancient art and civilization. No. 12, Krakau 2008, pp. 32–33.