Representaciones de deidades ofídicas en los enterramientos privados de las necrópolis tebanas durante el Reino Nuevo: evidencia gráfica de las diosas Renenutet y Meretseger

Abstract

During the New Kingdom, the graphic recurrence of the goddesses characterized by the snake form was a patent fact in the iconographic programs developed within the funeral spaces of the elite.

From the study of its iconography, it is possible to access the areas of religiosity and thought in which these entities were present. With the aim of understanding various aspects related to them, such as the pictorial context, their nature and significance or the validity of their existence and veneration, the different iconographical samples in which these goddesses were represented have been analysed. In this context, the iconography specifically analysed has treated the images of the goddesses Meretseger and Renenutet.