entity_relationships: 2361
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| relationship_id | subject_entity_id | relationship_type | object_entity_id | confidence | rationale | source_id | review_status | period_id |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2361 | ENT_MER_ARENSNUPHIS | syncretized_with | ENT_EGY_ANHUR | high | Arensnuphis is explicitly identified with Anhur (Onuris) in Greek dedications from Philae: he appears as "Arensnuphis Onuphris" in inscriptions, where Onuphris is the Greek rendering of Egyptian Onuris/Anhur. At Philae, the Chapel of Arensnuphis (early Ptolemaic period) was the principal cult location for both deities simultaneously. The Meroitic "Good Companion" and the Egyptian sky/war hunter deity were fused into a single cult figure. This is the most explicitly attested syncretism in the Meroitic layer, paralleling (but distinct from) the Egyptian identification of Onuris with Shu. Török (1997) pp. 475-478. | SRC_TÖRÖK_MEROE | reviewed | PER_MER_NAPATAN_MEROITIC |