Abaset

There are no mythological origin narratives for Abaset in the provided sources. Her attestation is archaeological and iconographic: she is known from tomb wall depictions at Qarat Qasr Salim in the Bahariya Oasis, dated to the 26th Dynasty. The available material situates her as a locally venerated netjeru represented in private funerary contexts rather than in broader state cult records.

Abaset is shown in anthropomorphic form as a woman. Iconographic elements recorded in the sources include a tripartite wig with a vulture cap and, in at least one depiction, an uraeus (cobra) at the forehead. A hedgehog element or motif is placed on or atop her headdress and is described as distinctive to her. One source notes she is depicted wearing a red dress in the Bannentiu tomb scenes. She is depicted three times on the tomb walls of Qarat Qasr Salim, including twice in the Tomb of Bannentiu.

The cited corpus provides no descriptions of mythic deeds, powers, cultic functions, or ritual roles for Abaset. Beyond her visual attributes, the sources do not record abilities or behaviors; therefore no specific supernatural functions can be reliably ascribed from the available material.