{"database": "deitydb", "table": "entities", "rows": [["ENT_MER_AMESEMI", "Amesemi", null, "Meroitic", "Meroitic goddess / consort of Apedemak", "Love Deity", "divine queenship; royal protection; female divine power", null, null, null, "B", null, null, null, null, null, "Amesemi is a Meroitic goddess who appears in temple programs as the consort of Apedemak. She is depicted wearing a hawk-crown (a solar hawk perched on a basket on her head), which gives her an iconographic resemblance to Isis, the Egyptian goddess also associated with the hawk and the royal throne. Her role in the relief programs at Naga is specifically linked to Meroitic royal theology: she stands alongside Apedemak in scenes of royal investiture, suggesting her domain involves divine queenship and the protection of Meroitic royalty through the female divine power. As Apedemak's consort, she occupies a structural position analogous to Isis as consort of Osiris in Egyptian theology \u2014 but the details of her mythological role are not recoverable from the surviving evidence, since Meroitic remains largely undeciphered. Confidence B: clearly attested in relief contexts but her functions and mythology are imperfectly understood. \u017dabkar (1975) pp. 40-45; T\u00f6r\u00f6k (1997) p. 484.", "deity"]], "columns": ["entity_id", "canonical_name", "greek_name", "tradition", "entity_type", "category", "primary_domains", "tags", "cult_scope", "primary_period", "evidence_confidence", "review_status", "inclusion_basis", "earth_association_score", "chthonic_flag", "serpent_flag", "short_note", "entity_class"], "primary_keys": ["entity_id"], "primary_key_values": ["ENT_MER_AMESEMI"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 7.599223999932292, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}