Votive Plaque of King Tanyidamani and Apedemak, The Naqa kiosk, Excavation by John Garstang, 1909-1910, in the Temple of Apedemak, Meroe
Name in hieroglyphs
Apedemak Jprmk
Major cult center
Lion Temple, Naqa
Consort
Amesemi
Equivalents
Roman equivalent
Jupiter
Bakongo equivalent
Nzambi
Egyptian equivalent
Amun
Apedemak or Apademak (likely pronounced Abedemak in Meroitic because of the absence of the phoneme /P/ in Meroitic[1]) was a major deity in the ancient Nubian and Kushite pantheon. Often depicted as a figure with a male human torso and a lion head, Apedemak was a war god worshiped by the Meroitic peoples inhabiting Kush. He has no Egyptian counterpart.[2] As a war god, Apedemak came to symbolize martial power, military conquest, and empire for the Meroitic peoples. Apedemak is also closely associated with Amun, the state-sponsored Egyptian deity during the preceding Napatan period, and is assumed to hold an equal level of importance.
^"The Meroitic Language and Writing System".
^The Ancient World : Extraordinary People in Extraordinary Societies. Michael Shally-Jensen. Ipswich, Mass.: Salem Press. 2017. ISBN 978-1-68217-190-5. OCLC 975044922.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: others (link)
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