The God Djeme

Djeme is known as a place name in Theban West bank, but the analysis of some Demotic texts demonstrates that it was used also as a god's name. This article registers the attestations of this theonym in personal names, titles of temple staff, and as recipient of feasts and libations, taxes and fines to pay; Djeme is also invoked as a deity in five temple oaths and one graffito from Medinet Habu. The absence of the theonym Djeme in Hieroglyphic and Greek sources, its invocation in temple oaths in the same places devoted to Amun-of-the-Ogdoad and the role of the god's servants of Djeme as chiefs of the notary office of the Theban West bank; all together, these three elements could justify the proposal that Djeme was employed as an alternative to Amun-of-the-Ogdoad, or Amun-Ra-of-Ḏsr-s.t, the patron deity of the small temple of Medinet Habu.