entity_id,period_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status ENT_EGY_HERYSHAF,PER_EGY_FIRST_INTERMEDIATE,high,"Heryshaf becomes politically significant when Herakleopolis becomes the royal capital of the 9th and 10th Dynasties (First Intermediate Period, c. 2160-2055 BCE); the Herakleopolitan kings held him as their dynastic deity; his cult and theology are actively promoted during this period of Herakleopolitan supremacy",SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS,reviewed ENT_EGY_HERYSHAF,PER_EGY_OLD_KINGDOM,high,"Heryshaf (""He who is upon his lake"") is the principal deity of Herakleopolis Magna (ancient Henen-nesut / Ihnasya el-Medina); attested from Old Kingdom inscriptions; he is a ram-headed creator and fertility deity associated with the primordial lake; Old Kingdom temples at Herakleopolis document his early cult",SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS,reviewed