Bata (god)

Bata (god)

Bata from Saka is an Egyptian bull-god of the New Kingdom, who represents together with Anubis the 17th Upper Egyptian Nome. Until the middle of the Eighteenth Dynasty Bata was represented as a ram and later as a bull.

Bata is probably identical with the death god "Bt" of the Egyptian Old Kingdom, known from the Saqqara necropolis, for instance from the Mastaba of Ti. Bata is not mentioned in the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts.

In Literature

Bata is the name of the protagonist in the "Tale of Two Brothers", a copy of which survives on the New Kingdom Papyrus D’Orbiney, where he is the brother of Anubis. He is also mentioned in the Ptolemaic Papyrus Jumilhac.

References

Susan T. Hollis, in: "Chronique d'Égypte" 59, 1984, 248-257 with more references

External links

* [http://www.reshafim.org.il/ad/egypt/texts/anpu_and_bata.htm Tale of Two Brothers]


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