Dimitri Meeks points out that since the horse was introduced into Egypt from the Near East, it makes sense that horse-riding deities in Egypt are also from the Near East. The most prominent rider is Astarte, who's actually better known from Egyptian examples than from Near Eastern ones. He highlights three in particular:
A shabti at the Univeristy of New England's Museum of Antiquities has the painted label: "The Osiris, Mery-Re, justified before Rait-tawy." Dr Ockinga notes that "She is well attested in the New Kingdom as well as in later periods and also appears on monuments whose provenance, like the probable provenance of the shabtis of Mery-Re, is Deir el
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Jotting some quick notes from different papers in this collection:
"there are no reliable records of Mut before the Second Intermediate Period" (p 25)
Of a vulture statue inscribed to Amenemhat III, "beloved of Sekhmet, lady of Ankhtaui": "The syncretism of Nekhbet and Sekhmet is well known" ("eg they may be interchangeable in the Coffin Texts
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I'm very curious about the identification of the Eye of Re with the Eye of Horus, and what this has to do with the identification of goddesses like Bastet and Wadjet. First stop: the Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, a huge dictionary listing every deity name and giving their attestations. In German. It's very educational,
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Stelae from Deir el Medina at the Turin Museum. Some lovely colour pics here, including images of Renenutet, Qudshu, Raettawy, and the mysterious "Great Cat". (My favourite is the eensy stela to Meretseger, with the cobra goddess enjoying her beer and lotus. :)
I am an absolute sucker for stick-figure
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