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Wooden statue of an unusually twisted turtle-headed creature of the underworld — from the tomb of Pharaoh Horemheb (c. 1319–1292 BC[1]). British Museum, London.Wooden statue of a ram-headed creature of the underworld — from the tomb of Horemheb. British Museum, London.
The gate deities of the underworld were ancient Egyptian minor deities charged with guarding the gates of the Egyptian underworld.[2][3][4]
^Erik Hornung, Rolf Krauss & David Warburton (editors), Ancient Egyptian Chronology (Handbook of Oriental Studies), Brill: 2006, p. 493.
^Hart 1986, pp. 68–72.
^Wilkinson 2003, pp. 81–2.
^"Minor Netherworld Deities of Ancient Egypt". www.touregypt.net (in Russian). Retrieved 2018-04-23.
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