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Reshafim - Ancient mythology terms Category: History and Culture > Ancient mythology Date & country: 16/01/2011, IS Words: 358

Sheshonk, Sheshonq
5 pharaohs reigning during the 3rd Intermediate Period, 22th and 23th dynasty

Shu
God, often identified with Heracles by the Greeks

Shuwardata
Ruler of Keilah, contemporary of Akhenaten

Sile
Town on the eastern border of the Delta (Tell Abu Seify), possibly identical with Zaru

SIP
Second Intermediate Period

Sistrum, Seistron
Musical instrument, rattle

Snefru, Sneferu, Snofru
Old Kingdom Pharaoh, 4th dynasty

Solar boat, ~ ship, ~ barque
Boat used by the sun god to cross the sky

Sopdet (spd.t), Greek Sothis
Goddess, embodiment of the star Sirius

Speos (Greek for 'cave')
Temple cut into rock

Sphinx (Greek)
Statue with lion's body and human or animal head

Stat (sTA.t)
see Setchat

Stater
Also tetradrachma, Greek 4 drachma coin

Tadu-heba, Tadukhipa
Daughter of Tushratta, married to Amenhotep III

Talatat (from Arabic for three)
Small stone blocks used in temple walls

Talent
60 minas at 100 drachmas each, 6000 drachmas

Tamilat
see Tumilat

Tauret, Taweret, Tauwret
fertility goddess

Tefnut
Goddess of dew and rain

Tehenu, Tehennu, Ta-Seti
People living in the Sahara, Libyans

Tehuti
see Thoth

Temenos (Greek)
Enclosure adjacent to or surrounding a temple etc

Tet (tj.t),
cf. Tyet

Teti
6th dynasty pharaoh

Thebes, No, Waset, Wese
New Kingdom capital of Egypt, centre of the Amen cult

Thoth, Thot, Toth, Tehuti, Djehuti
God of wisdom, his main temple was at Hermopolis, Hermes Trismegistus to the Greeks

TIP
Third Intermediate Period

TT
Theban Tomb, together with a number used by archaeologists to identify ancient tombs at Thebes

Tumilat, Tamilat
Wadi connecting the easternmost arm of the Nile to the Bitter Lakes

Tushratta
King of Mitanni, first half of the 14th century BCE

Two lands
The united land of Upper and Lower Egypt, since the New Kingdom also referred to as Kemet

Uat. Uto
Goddess identified with the Greek Leto, her centre of worship was Buto

Ubasti
see Bast

Udjat, Wedjat (wAD.t)
The eye of Horus, amulet

Uni
see Weni

Upuaut, Wepwawet
Guardian god in the shape of a canine

Userkaf
First king of the fifth dynasty

Usertesen
See Senusret

Ushabti
see shabti

Valley of the Kings
Pharaonic burial site near Thebes during the New Kingdom, modern name for ancient "The Great and Majestic Necropolis of the Millions of Years of the Pharaoh, L.P.H., in the West of Thebes" or "The Great Field"

Valley of the Queens
Burial site of queens near Thebes

Vizier (from Arabic wazeer)
Egyptian tjati, the Arabic word for the chief minister, generally used in the context of pharaonic Egypt

Wadjet (wAD.t), also wedjat, uzat
Lunar eye of Horus. The uraeus of Re. Often used in amulet form to protect from the evil eye

Was sceptre (wAs)
Symbol of well-being and happiness

Waset, Wese
see Thebes

Wawat
see Nubia

Wedjahorresnet
Physician, Persian period

Weni, Uni
6th dynasty official, governor of Upper Egypt, served under a number of pharaohs

Weni, Wenis
see Unas

Wepwawet
Upuaut

White crown
the crown of Upper Egypt

Xerxes
Persian king and pharaoh of Egypt (585-546 BCE)

Yarsu
Syrian, sometimes identified with Merneptah Siptah's chancellor Bay.(19th dynasty)

Yuya
high official under Thutmose IV, husband of Tuyu

Zaphnathpaaneah, Zaphnath-paaneah
according to the bible the Egyptian name of Joseph

Zaru, Thalu, Tjaru
A town in the Delta on the eastern frontier, possibly identical with Sile

Zoser
see Djoser

L.P.H.
Life, prosperity, health (anx wDA snb) [1] - Wish for well-being, added after the names of pharaohs, "prosperity" should rather be "soundness"