Renenūtet was a goddess of grain, grapes, nourishment and the harvest in the ancient Egyptian religion. The importance of the harvest caused people to make many offerings to Renenutet during harvest time.
Initially, her cult was centered in Terenuthis. Renenutet was depicted as a cobra or as a woman with the head of a cobra.
Renenutet as a snake-headed woman seated in front of Nepit (left) and Hu (center) in the form of cobras
Tarrana, known in classical antiquity as Terenuthis, is a town in Monufia Governorate of Egypt. It is located in the western Nile Delta, circa 70 km north-west of Cairo, between the southern prehistoric site of Merimde Beni-salame and the northern town of Kom el-Hisn. The ruins of ancient Terenuthis are found at Kom Abu Billo, northwest of the modern city.
The necropolis at Kom Abu Billo
Tomb-chapel, Graeco–Roman period
Vault of a Graeco–Roman tomb
Roman funerary stele, Rosicrucian Egyptian Museum