Sopdet
Sign in to saveSopdet is the ancient Egyptian name of the star Sirius and its personification as an Egyptian goddess. Known to the Greeks as Sothis, she was conflated with Isis as a goddess and Anubis as a god.
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Egyptian
- Deity.name
- Sopdet
- Deity.image
- Sopdet.svg
- Deity.caption
- Sopdet in green dress, with star on her head
- Deity.hiero
- M44-N14-X1:H8
- Deity.symbol
- Sirius; dog (Ptolemaic/Roman)
- Deity.consort
- Sah (Orion); Osiris
- Deity.offspring
- Sopdu (Venus); Horus
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- Ancient Egyptian deity
- Part of
- Egyptian mythology
- Gender
- female
- Image
- Sopdet.svg
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- Commons category
- Sopdet
- worshipped by
- religion of ancient Egypt
- domain of saint or deity
- flooding of the Nile
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Encyclopedic overview
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Sopdet is the ancient Egyptian name of the star Sirius and its personification as an Egyptian goddess. Known to the Greeks as Sothis, she was conflated with Isis as a goddess and Anubis as a god.
==Names== The exact pronunciation of ancient Egyptian is uncertain, as vowels were not recorded until a very late period. In modern transcription, her name usually appears as Sopdet (, ), after the known Greek and Latin form Sothis ().
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