Ta-who

Ta-wer in hieroglyphics
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Ta-wer ( Greek name Thinites ) was the name of the 8th Upper Egyptian Gau . It was 67.138 kilometers long and stretched from the Gebel et-Tarif to the north of Menschijeh . The Gau temporarily included the Charga and Dachla oases and the area on the east bank of the Nile between Gebel Tuch and Gebel et-Tarif. The capital was Thinis for a long time , later the metropolis moved to Ptolemais Hermeiou. Abydos formed its own subdistrict of this district.

Ta-wer is mentioned for the first time in the World Chamber and in the tomb of Nesutnefer.

The "Abydos fetish" (also called "Osiris symbol") looks like an omphalos and is interpreted by Eberhard Otto as a kind of primeval hill . According to older representations, it could also be a wig put on a stick . The symbol was initially adorned with two horns and a hanging ribbon, later with two ostrich feathers or a feather crown . It was placed on a standard early on and venerated as sacred. Since the New Kingdom , the fetish was seen as the head of the dead Osiris and was considered a relic that was kept as a portable object in the temple. Ramses I and Sethos I are shown sacrificing in front of this symbol in their temples.

literature

Wolfgang Helck : Gaue. In: Wolfgang Helck (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie (LÄ). Volume II, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-447-01876-3 , Sp. 388.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b Wolfgang Helck : Gaue. In: Wolfgang Helck (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie (LÄ). Volume II, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-447-01876-3 , Sp. 388.
↑ Manfred Lurker : Lexicon of the gods and symbols of the ancient Egyptians. 3rd edition, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-596-16693-0 , pp. 151-152.
^ Herbert E. Winlock : Bas-Reliefs from the Temple of Rameses I. at Abydos (= The metropolitan Museum of Art. Papers, Vol. 1, Part 1). New York 1921, p. 21, ( PDF file; 19.4 MB ( memento from September 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )).
↑ Eberhard Otto : Abydos fetish. In: Wolfgang Helck (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie (LÄ). Volume I, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1975, ISBN 3-447-01670-1 , Sp. 47-48.

[LÄII-1] Wolfgang Helck : Gaue. In: Wolfgang Helck (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie (LÄ). Volume II, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1977, ISBN 3-447-01876-3 , Sp. 388.

[2] Manfred Lurker : Lexicon of the gods and symbols of the ancient Egyptians. 3rd edition, Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2008, ISBN 978-3-596-16693-0 , pp. 151-152.

[3] Herbert E. Winlock : Bas-Reliefs from the Temple of Rameses I. at Abydos (= The metropolitan Museum of Art. Papers, Vol. 1, Part 1). New York 1921, p. 21, ( PDF file; 19.4 MB ( memento from September 20, 2011 in the Internet Archive )).

[4] Eberhard Otto : Abydos fetish. In: Wolfgang Helck (Hrsg.): Lexikon der Ägyptologie (LÄ). Volume I, Harrassowitz, Wiesbaden 1975, ISBN 3-447-01670-1 , Sp. 47-48.