entity_id,period_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status ENT_EGY_ASH,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC,high,"Ash is attested from Dynasty 1 wine-jar labels from Abydos where his name appears in association with Libyan oasis regions; he is one of the oldest attested Egyptian deities associated with the Western Desert and Libya; Wilkinson (2003) p. 193: Ash ""is attested from the very beginning of Egyptian history""",SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS,reviewed ENT_EGY_ASH,PER_EGY_OLD_KINGDOM,high,Ash appears in the Pyramid Texts as a protective deity of the Western Desert regions; his role as a seth-animal deity who guards the western lands connects him to the cosmic geography of the Old Kingdom funerary tradition,SRC_FAULKNER_PYRAMID_TEXTS,reviewed