{"database": "deitydb", "table": "sources", "rows": [["SRC_ZABKAR_APEDEMAK", "Louis V. \u017dabkar, Apedemak, Lion God of Meroe: A Study in Egyptian-Meroitic Syncretism (Aris & Phillips, Warminster, 1975)", null, "secondary scholarship", "The dedicated monograph on Apedemak, the pre-eminent indigenous Meroitic deity. \u017dabkar analyzes all attestations of Apedemak across the relief programs of Musawwarat es-Sufra, Naga (including the famous Lion Temple of Apedemak built by Natakamani and Amanitore, c. 1\u201320 CE), and Meroe itself. He demonstrates that Apedemak is not an Egyptian import but an indigenous Nubian/Meroitic lion deity who developed his iconographic program partly by borrowing Egyptian artistic conventions while remaining theologically distinct \u2014 there is no Egyptian lion war god precisely corresponding to him. Covers Apedemak's role in the Meroitic royal ideology as the divine guarantor of military victory, his lion-headed human iconography (and variant multi-headed, multi-armed forms at Naga), and his relationship with the queen and king in Meroitic royal theology. Cited primarily for ENT_MER_APEDEMAK and secondarily for Amesemi as his consort."]], "columns": ["source_id", "title", "url", "source_type", "scope"], "primary_keys": ["source_id"], "primary_key_values": ["SRC_ZABKAR_APEDEMAK"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 0.7840710022719577, "source": "jebboone/deitydb", "source_url": "https://github.com/jebboone/deitydb", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://opensource.org/licenses/MIT"}