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Seshat facts for kids
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Seshat, depicted in a leopard skin, inscribing the years of reign for the king on the palm-leaf rib which served for tallying up the years and so had become the hieroglyph for "year".
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| Symbol | leopard skin, tablet, star, stylus | ||||
| Consort | Thoth (in some accounts) | ||||
| Parents | Thoth and Maat | ||||
Seshat was the ancient Egyptian idea of knowledge, shown as a goddess. She became the goddess of writing, astronomy/astrology, architecture, and mathematics. When Thoth became the god of wisdom, Seshat was seen as his daughter, or sometimes, as his wife. In art, she was shown as a woman with a stylised papyrus plant above her head. This symbolised writing since the Egyptians wrote on a material that came from papyrus.
Images for kids
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Goddess Seshat, ca. 1919-1875 B.C.E., 52.129 Brooklyn Museum
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Hatshepsut with goddess Seshat.
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Seshat carved on the back of the throne of the seated statue of Rameses II in the Amun temple at Luxor. It dates from around 1250 BCE.
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Seshat. Same carving, full length.
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Seshat, at the Karnak Temple Complex.