Pakhet

There are two temples here, both of which are dedicated to Pakhet.

To the south of the cemetery is a temple constructed by Hatshepsut and Thutmose III, dedicated to the local goddess Pakhet.

It is known as the Cave of Artemis, because the Greeks identified Pakhet with Artemis, and the temple is subterranean.

The Temple of Pakhet was built by Hatshepsut at Beni Hasan in the Minya Governorate south of Al Minya.

The name, Pakhet was a synthesis that occurred by combining Bast and Sekhmet, who were similar lioness war goddesses, in an area that bordered the north and south division of their cults.

Gareth Owen, the cosmopolitan Mamur Zapt, is dispatched to deal with the curious discovery of the linen-wrapped body of a European woman, laid out in a cemetery among hundreds of mummified cats sacred to the cat goddess, Pakhet.