Seshat
Stub entity — referenced by another entity from source #1452 but not yet directly extracted from its own source.
↻ synthesized from 8 sources
When
- First attested
- 3000 BCE
- Attested period
- -3000 – 2020
- Historical notes
- Attested from Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets to the present.
Relationships
- consort of
- Thoth
- co occurs with
- Renpetneferet, Seshu, Irer, The Far, The Large, Ra, Ma'at, Hygieia, Asclepius, Heh, Mafdet, Sia, Hu, Ptah, Apophis
- serves
- Sedjem
- child of
- Thoth
- has aspect
- Sefkhet-Abwy
- syncretized with
- Hathor within the Benenet
Mentioned by
- Ra
- Ma'at
- Hygieia
- Asclepius
- Heh
- Mafdet
- Sia
- Hu
- Ptah
- Apophis
- Nephthys
- Horus
- Thoth
- Sefkhet-Abwy
- Irer
- Sedjem
and 1 more
Sources
Source passages
“Thoth was inserted in many tales as the wise counselor and persuader, and his association with learning and measurement led him to be connected with Seshat, the earlier deification of wisdom, who was said to be his daughter, or variably his wife.”
#19534 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“This identification of the renpet with the Ogdoad and Heh is visible in the iconography associated with Seshat, the wife of Thoth. Seshat is depicted inscribing the count of the years into a renpet, or a palm frond which functioned as a register of time, and as the hieroglyph for the word year.”
#20875 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“In other accounts, Thoth was paired off with Seshat, goddess of writing and measure, who is a lesser-known deity.”
#23419 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001
“The Seshat emblem is a hieroglyph representing the goddess Seshat in ancient Egypt. In art, it was shown above her head or as part of her headpiece.”
#23685 · extracted by anthropic/claude-sonnet-4.5
“Irer, which translates as "sight," first appears as a scribe, alongside Sedjem, for Thoth and Seshat in the temples of Seti I and Ramesses II at Abydos.”
#24248 · extracted by google/gemini-2.0-flash-001