Tanetpaschai
| Tanetpaschai in hieroglyphics | ||||||||
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Tanetpaschai (Ta net pa Schai) T3 nt p3 S3J The fate of the Related / The (m) God Schai Related |
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| Greek | Tapsais (Ταψαις) | |||||||
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Tanetpaschai ( demotic Tapaschai ) is an ancient Egyptian goddess who has only been documented since Greco-Roman times . She was venerated as the future wife of the god Tithoes . Tanetpaschai was depicted iconographically either with an ostrich feather between cattle horns or above the Hathor crown or with a red crown with an overlying Hathor crown and an ostrich feather .
The Roman Emperor Domitian was in the oasis in the first century. Chr. In honor of Tithoes his only temple Dakhla west of Ismant el-Charab in ancient Kellis build. There was also a small shrine in honor of " Neith as the mother of Tithoes" and Tanetpaschai.
See also
literature
- Christian Leitz u. a .: LGG, vol. 1: A - i (series of publications: Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 110) . Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1146-8 , p. 334.
- Anthony J. Mills: Dakhla Oasis, Dynastic and Roman sites . In: Kathryn A. Bard, Steven Blake Shubert: Encyclopedia of the archeology of ancient Egypt . Routledge, London 1999, ISBN 0-415-18589-0 , pp. 220-222.