Of Shemesh-Atum we hear again in one of the inscriptions of Amenophis III.
In Shemesh-Atum or Shemesh-Edom we therefore have a compound name signifying that the Shemesh or Sun-god denoted by it was not the male divinity of the customary worship, but the Sun-goddess Edom.
Shemesh-Atum was the first city to feel the effects of his anger, and he carried away from it eighteen prisoners and thirteen oxen.
In Israelitish times the second element in the compound seems to have been dropped; at all events it is probable that Shemesh-Atum was the Beth-Shemesh of the Old Testament (Josh.
In Hebrew it would appear as Shemesh-Edom, and an Egyptian papyrus, now at Leyden, informs us that Atum or Edom was the wife of Resheph the Canaanitish god of fire and lightning.
It seems that, after the death of Namiatum, Iashuḫatum married again.
Then the sons of Namiatum renounce further claim on the ground of family possession to the property of Idin-Adadi, Iashuḫatum and their descendants.
Ang muatum-atum sa sulti sa gamayng bátà buang, Whoever gives importance to everything a child says is a fool.
By these titles, suggestive of some of the attributes and offices towards the dead, attributed by the Egyptians to Atum and Osiris, was the first member of their first order of gods addressed by the Chaldæans.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "atum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
