Women (Sheet 13)

Question 1

Sit

Answer 1

“woman/lady”

Question 2

Hemet

Answer 2

wife

Question 3

Nebet per

Answer 3

“lady of the house”

Question 4

Mut

Answer 4

“mother”

Question 5

Hebsut

Answer 5

“concubine”

Question 6

Isis

Answer 6

the archetypal mother in the Osiris myth

Question 7

Hathor

Answer 7

cow goddess of fertility, connected with sexuality, fertility and childbirth

Question 8

Sekhmet

Answer 8

lion goddess (antithesis of Hathor), characterized by unpredictability, fierceness and viciousness

Question 9

Tawaret

Answer 9

hippo-headed, crocodile-tailed goddess with a pregnant belly; protector of pregnant women

Question 10

Bes

Answer 10

dwarf deity, protective god of the household

Question 11

Priestess of Hathor

Answer 11

elite women of the Old and Middle Kingdoms

Question 12

God’s Wife of Amun (God’s Hand)

Answer 12

religiously/politically important women of the New Kingdom

Question 13

Professions for women

Answer 13

• Musician
• Weaver
• Washerwoman
• Professional Mourner
• Wetnurse

Question 14

Marriage

Answer 14

marriage ceremonies were essentially nonexistent in AE. It was not traditional marriage as it was “to found a house” and it was mostly an economic arrangement. Women maintained their land even after marriage. Marriage documents appear after 700 BC

Question 15

Divorce

Answer 15

happened often for reasons like infidelity and failure to produce offspring

Question 16

Pregnancy / Gender Test

Answer 16

Pee on one bowl of wheat and one bowl of barley. if the grains germinate you are pregnant. If the barley sprouts first the baby is a boy, if the wheat does it will be a girl.

Question 17

Isis knot (tjet-knot)

Answer 17

Red-colored cloth knot - magical emblem symbolizing a tampon

Question 18

Meskhnenet

Answer 18

goddess of the birthbrick, appears as a brick with a human head