relationship_id,subject_entity_id,relationship_type,object_entity_id,confidence,rationale,source_id,review_status,period_id 2366,ENT_MER_AMESEMI,spouse_of,ENT_MER_APEDEMAK,high,Amesemi is depicted in the Naga Lion Temple relief program standing alongside Apedemak in positions that clearly identify her as his divine consort. The pairing Apedemak-Amesemi in the Naga relief program is structurally analogous to the Osiris-Isis pairing in Egyptian royal theology: the warrior king-god and his queenly divine consort. Žabkar (1975) pp. 40-45.,SRC_ZABKAR_APEDEMAK,reviewed,PER_MER_NAPATAN_MEROITIC 2367,ENT_MER_AMESEMI,aligned_with,ENT_EGY_ISIS,medium,"Amesemi wears a hawk-crown — a solar hawk perched on a basket — which is iconographically similar to one of Isis's crown forms. As the divine consort of a warrior deity who legitimates royal power, she occupies the same theological structural role as Isis in relation to Osiris-Horus in Egyptian royal theology. Confidence medium: the parallel is structural and iconographic; ancient sources do not explicitly equate Amesemi with Isis. Žabkar (1975) p. 42; Török (1997) p. 484.",SRC_ZABKAR_APEDEMAK,reviewed,PER_MER_NAPATAN_MEROITIC