Wosret

Wosret is an argument for looking at royal names. She is barely depicted, has no temple anyone has found, and would be almost invisible — except that the kings who reunified and ran Middle Kingdom Egypt called themselves Senusret, 'man of Wosret', three times over in one dynasty. A goddess nobody drew was important enough that the ruling house put her in its name for a century. The record states what is attested and does not speculate about why.

Domains

• war

Sources

• Reference treatment of Wosret, her royal name-bearers, her rarity in art and her iconography.