Wenut's clearly feminine here, as one can see from the breast, but also the lotus scepter, instead of the uas, and because the head is recognizable as a lioness, to my eye at least, though admittedly I can't point to any single feature that makes it so. Seeing any male lion heads much north of Nubia is incredibly rare, of course, so one tends to rule it out a priori. Apedemak has a fringe of mane, though, and a shorter snout, bigger eyes, etc. Leaving out the -t's at the end of feminine words is very common on monuments. Since Wenut's name is determined by a seated Goddess, there's no ambiguity. Now as for the pairing of Wenut and Sobek, that merits some pondering. Since she has a lion head, she's implicitly in the Eye of Re capacity. Perhaps Nebwa is fond of her because he's a scribe? Then the question would be why Sobek in particular. But then sometimes it's really just a question of the peculiarities of personal devotion.
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Date: 2012-12-02 04:38 am (UTC)