ID: 901000159 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ia/901000159	Record Type: Character/Person

	Thoth (Egyptian deity)

Note: In Egyptian religion, a god of the moon, of reckoning, of learning, and of writing. He was held to be the inventor of writing, the creator of languages, the scribe, interpreter, and adviser of the gods, and the representative of the sun god, Re. His responsibility for writing was shared with the goddess Seshat. The cult of Thoth was centred in the town of Khmunu (Hermopolis; modern Al-Ashmūnayn) in Upper Egypt. Egyptian deity often depicted as a man with the head of an ibis or a baboon, animals sacred to him. His feminine counterpart was Seshat, and his wife was Maat. Thoth’s sacred animals were the ibis and the baboon

Names:

	Thoth (Egyptian deity) (preferred,English-P,D,N)
	Djhuty (Egyptian deity) (Ancient Egyptian (transliterated),U,N)

Hierarchical Position:

		Legend, Religion, Mythology (P)
		....<Egyptian iconography> (P)
		........<Egyptian characters> (P)
		............Thoth (Egyptian deity) (I)

Related Iconography:

	consort/spouse of .... Maat
	..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Egyptian iconography, Egyptian characters, Maat (Egyptian diety)) [901001641]

	counterpart is .... Seshat
	..........(Legend, Religion, Mythology, Egyptian iconography, Egyptian characters, Seshat (Egyptian deity)) [901001853]

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)

	affiliated/associated with .... ibis
	.....(Threskiornithinae (subfamily), Threskiornithidae (family), Pelecaniformes (order), Aves (class), Vertebrata (subphylum), Chordata (phylum), Animalia (kingdom), Eukaryota (domain), living organisms (entities), Living Organisms (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	affiliated/associated with .... baboon
	.....(Cercopithecidae (family), Cercopithecoidea (superfamily), Primates (order), Mammalia (class), Vertebrata (subphylum), Chordata (phylum), Animalia (kingdom), Eukaryota (domain), living organisms (entities), Living Organisms (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

	flourished/active in .... Al-Ashmūnayn
	.....(Al Minyā, Egypt, Africa) (TGN)

	deity of .... writing (processes)
	.....(image-making processes and techniques, processes and techniques by specific type, Processes and Techniques (hierarchy name)) (AAT)

Sources:

	Thoth (Egyptian deity)
	................Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 22 May 2012
	................Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) sh 89005757
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)
	Djhuty (Egyptian deity)
	................Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)

Iconography Record Sources:

	................ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 22 May 2012
	................ Encyclopedia Britannica Online (2002-)