Bata from Saka is an Egyptian bull-god of the New Kingdom, who represents together with Anubis the 17th Upper Egyptian Nome. Bata is known by the Papyrus D’Orbiney, (Tale of Two Brothers) and the Ptolemaic Papyrus Jumilhac. In Papyrus D’Orbiney he is the brother of Anubis. Until the middle of the Eighteenth Dynasty Bata was represented as a ram and later as a bull. Bata is probably identical with the death god Bt of the Egyptian Old Kingdom, known in Saqqara necropolis, for instance in the Mastaba of Ti. Bata is not mentioned in the Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts.
References
Susan T. Hollis, in: Chronique d'Égypte 59, 1984, 248-257 with more references
