Goddess Seshat name |
Goddess Seshat |
In the Old Kingdom Seshat has the responsibility of registering herds of cattle, sheep, goats and donkeys attached as swag by King Sahura (Dynasty V) from Libyan federations of tribes. This scene at Abusir becomes a epitome, since we find Seshat showing names and tribute of foreign prisoners in the temple of Senwosret I twelfth Dynasty at el-Lisht.
In New Kingdom temples such as Karnak or Abydos Seshat records the royal jubilees. She holds a jagged palm offset (the sign for years) which terminates in a tadpole (the number 100000) sitting on the symbol for eternity. It is by this incalculably wide number that one must breed the jubilee festivals represented by the ritual pavilions dependent on the tip of the branch, to give the number to be divine by the sovereign whose name she commemorates on the allows of the persea tree an infinity of kingship.