4 De Khenti-Mentiou à Khenti-Imentiou: Miroir du monde funéraire royal de l’Âge Thinite à l’Ancien Empire
In: Variability in the Earlier Egyptian Mortuary Texts
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Jean-Pierre Pätznick
Jean-Pierre Pätznick
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The topic of this study is the epigraphical development from the epithet Khenti Menet “The one who presides over the Menet” of the Abydian jackal god protector of the Thinite royal mortuary realm at Umm el-Qaab, which is attested since the first dynasty, to Osiris’ epithet Khenti Imentiu “The one who presides over those who are in the West,” which is attested from the Old Kingdom onwards. The semantic change from lexem Menet to lexem Imenet in the Osirian epithet reveals one of the major changes of the royal mortuary and religious beliefs which occurred between Thinite times and the Old Kingdom, which some passages from the Pyramid Texts may reflect.