TAA i.3.12.1

Notebook
TAA i.3.12 (figures of deities)
Page number
1
Caption
Note for scientific publication on figures of deities
Creator
Howard Carter
Date of creation
c. 1923-1939
Material
Paper
Pencil
Measurements
15.3 x 11.5 cm (h x w)
Notes

Handwritten note on the Ennead. Includes reference to A.H. Gardiner's publication The Contendings Between Horus and Seth.

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Transcription

Note

'Ennead' – 'a body of nine (gods)', 

properly the official designation of the 

company of great deities descended, 

according to the Heliopolitan dogma, 

from the Sun-god Re'-Atum. Originally 

comprising Atum himself and 

four pairs of deities, namely Shu 

and Tefenet, Geb and Nut, Osiris 

and Isis, Seth and Nephthys, the 

Ennead subsequently extended its 

membership so as to comprise 

(theoretically) eighteen or twenty-seven 

divinities, but no list of them is 

given. 'The great Ennead', and the 

'the Entire Ennead' is mentioned. 

(See Gardiner, The Contendings of Horus & Seth. 

                                                         p. 14, note 3.)