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_BANEBDJEDET,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC,high,"Banebdjedet (the ram of Mendes; ""Ba-soul, lord of Djedet"") is attested from Early Dynastic texts at Mendes in the Nile Delta; he is one of the most ancient ram deities; his ram-headed solar theology connects him to the primordial ba-soul of the sun; among the earliest attested Delta deities",SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS,reviewed ENT_EGY_BAT,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC,high,"Archaic bovine sky-goddess of the 7th Upper Egyptian nome, depicted as the inward-curling-horned cow head atop the Narmer Palette (Dyn. 0/1) and later absorbed by Hathor.",SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS,reviewed ENT_EGY_HAROERIS,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC,high,"Haroeris (Horus the Elder, Hor-wer = ""Great Horus"") is one of the earliest attested Egyptian deities; his hawk iconography appears on Narmer Palette (c. 3100 BCE); as the sky-falcon who fights Seth, he is the divine prototype of the pharaoh; a predynastic and early dynastic Horus form distinct from the younger Horus who avenges Osiris",SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS,reviewed ENT_EGY_HORUS,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC,high,"Horus as the royal falcon god is attested on the Narmer Palette (c. 3100 BCE), the earliest monument of unified Egypt; he is the patron deity of kingship from the first dynasty onward",SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS,reviewed ENT_EGY_MEHIT,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC,high,Lioness goddess of This/Thinis whose recumbent-lioness emblem is attested already in the Early Dynastic period; consort of Anhur (Onuris).,SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS,reviewed ENT_EGY_MIN,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC,high,"Min of Coptos (Qift) is attested by the Min colossi, now in the Ashmolean Museum — some of the oldest surviving large-scale Egyptian sculpture, dated to the Predynastic or Early Dynastic period (c. 3000 BCE); his ithyphallic cult at Coptos is among the oldest documented Egyptian religious traditions",SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS,reviewed ENT_EGY_NEITH,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC,high,Neith is one of the oldest attested Egyptian deities; the name Neith-hotep (a 1st Dynasty queen) and the Neith-headed standard appear in the earliest dynastic records; her cult at Sais is pre-dynastic in origin,SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS,reviewed ENT_EGY_NEKHBET,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC,high,Nekhbet (the vulture of Upper Egypt) appears on the Narmer Palette alongside Wadjet; she is the protective vulture goddess of Upper Egypt and the pharaoh from the earliest dynastic period,SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS,reviewed ENT_EGY_SATET,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC,high,"Satis/Satet is attested from Early Dynastic inscriptions; the Khasekhemwy vase (Dynasty 2, c. 2670 BCE) at Hierakonpolis depicts her; she was a state deity at Elephantine from the earliest pharaonic period; her white-crown-with-antelope-horns iconography appears on Dynasty 1 objects",SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS,reviewed ENT_EGY_SED,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC,high,"Archaic jackal/wolf-form deity for whom the royal Sed (jubilee) festival is named, attested from the 1st Dynasty and associated with Wepwawet.",SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS,reviewed ENT_EGY_SESHAT,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC,medium,"Seshat (goddess of writing and measurement) is associated with the ""Stretching the Cord"" foundation ceremony, attested from the 1st Dynasty; her earliest certain textual attestation is slightly later but her Early Dynastic role in royal ceremony is well-documented",SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS,reviewed ENT_EGY_SETH,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC,high,"Seth is attested in the Early Dynastic period at Nubt (Ombos/Naqada), his cult center, which predates unification; the Seth animal appears in Predynastic imagery; 2nd Dynasty pharaoh Peribsen took a Seth name",SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS,reviewed ENT_EGY_WADJET,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC,high,Wadjet (the cobra of Lower Egypt) is attested from the Early Dynastic period as the protector of Lower Egypt and of the pharaoh; she appears on the royal uraeus from the earliest dynasties,SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS,reviewed ENT_EGY_WEPWAWET,PER_EGY_EARLY_DYNASTIC,high,"Wepwawet (""Opener of the Ways"") appears on the Narmer Palette as a standard carried before the pharaoh; his jackal cult at Asyut (Lycopolis) is among the oldest provincial cults in Egypt",SRC_WILKINSON_EGYPTIAN_GODS,reviewed