nswt nḫt dm p.t m šw.tj=f: These epithets for Osiris are distinctive. Leitz (2002, LGG IV, 332) records two other examples of njsw nḫt from New Kingdom sources, as an epithet of Re-Harakhty on a stela from the tomb of Horemheb and of a god, possibly [Min?]-Kamutef, on a stela of Sety I dedicated in Buhen. Amun is addressed as “valiant king of perpetuity (njsw nḫt nḥḥ)” in the texts of the high priest Roma inscribed on the east massif of the 8th pylon at Karnak (KRI III, 288, 4). It is otherwise known from Graeco-Roman sources as an epithet for gods in ritual scenes. For nṯr dm pt m šw.tj=f see Budde "Die den Himmel durchsticht und sich mit den Sternen vereint". Zur Bedeutung und Funktion der Doppelfederkrone in der Götterikonographie, in: SAK 30, 2002, 57-102, with p. 69 and p. 98, n. 131 for this text. Wenennefer’s statue seems to bear one of the few examples of its use as a divine epithet before the Graeco-Roman period (Leitz 2002, LGG VII, 536–7).

Commentary author: Elizabeth Frood; with contributions by: Peter Dils; Data file created: 11/10/2020, latest revision: 12/21/2020