River and land

Anuket

ꜥnqt

The cataractThe inundationNubia

How it changed

The youngest of the Elephantine triad and the goddess of the Nile precisely where it entered Egypt through the first cataract. Her name was read as the embracer, taken for the way the flood surrounds the fields, and her festival fell as the waters rose.

Cult centre

Elephantine, and the island of Seheil

Best attested

Old Kingdom onward

Family

ParentsKhnum, Satet

Daughter in the Elephantine triad, with Khnum and Satet.

Epithets

“Mistress of Nubia”
“She who embraces”

How to recognise the figure

A woman in a tall crown of reeds or ostrich feathers; the gazelle is her animal.

Others in this group

Sobek

Kom Ombo and the Faiyum

Hapi

Aswan and Gebel el-Silsila, at the river rather than in a city

Min

Coptos and Akhmim

Satet

Elephantine