ID: 901001638 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901001638	Record Type: Religion/Mythology/Legend

	Khnum (Egyptian diety)

Note: Ancient Egyptian god of fertility, associated with water and with procreation. Khnum is depicted as a ram with horizontal twisting horns or as a man with a ram’s head. Because it was believed that Khnum ceated mankind out of clay, later representations show Khnum using a potter’s wheel. The god’s first main cult centre was Herwer, near Al-Ashmūnayn in Middle Egypt and from the New Kingdom (1539–1075 BCE) on, he was the god of the island of Elephantine, where he formed he formed a triad of deities with the goddesses Satis and Anukis. Khnum also had an important cult at Esna

Names:

	Khnum (Egyptian diety) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
	Khnemu (Egyptian diety) (English,U,N)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Egyptian iconography> (P)
		........<Egyptian characters> (P)
		............Khnum (Egyptian diety) (I)

Other Relationships:

	role/characteristic is .... deity
	.....(people in religion, people in religion and related occupations, people in the humanities, people by occupation, people (agents), People (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	culture/religion is .... Ancient Egyptian (culture)
	.....(Mediterranean (Early Western World), Early Western World, styles, periods, and cultures by region, Styles and Periods (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	deity of .... water (inorganic material)
	.....(inorganic material, materials by composition, materials (substances), Materials (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	deity of .... fertility
	.....(biological concepts, scientific concepts, Associated Concepts (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	symbolic attribute is .... ram (animal)
	.....(sheep by sex or age, Ovis (genus), Bovidae (family), Artiodactyla (order), Mammalia (class), Vertebrata (subphylum), Chordata (phylum), Animalia (kingdom), Eukaryota (domain), living organisms (entities), Living Organisms (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	symbolic attribute is .... potter's wheel
	.....(tools and equipment for clayworking, equipment by material processed, equipment, Tools and Equipment (hierarchy name), Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Khnum (Egyptian diety)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Khnum," accessed 31 October 2016
	Khnemu (Egyptian diety)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Khnum," accessed 31 October 2016

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Bunson, Encyclopedia of Ancient Egypt (2002) 202
	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-) "Khnum," accessed 31 October 2016