Editing Atum (section)

==Iconography==
[[File:Apep 1.jpg|thumb|Atum on right side facing [[Apep]] with a spear, [[KV16|tomb of Ramesses I]], 19th Dynasty (c. 1292–1290 BC)]]
Atum is usually depicted in anthropomorphic form, wearing either the divine Tripartite wig or the dual [[Hedjet|white]] and [[Deshret|red crown]] of [[Upper Egypt|Upper]] and [[Lower Egypt]], known as the Double Crown, reinforcing his connection with kingship. In the Netherworld Books, he is sometimes depicted as an old man leaning on a stick, a reference to his role as the aging evening sun.  Sometimes he is also shown as a [[Serpent (symbolism)|serpent]], the form he returns to at the end of the creative cycle, and also occasionally as a [[mongoose]], [[lion]], [[Bull (mythology)|bull]], [[lizard]], or [[ape]].{{sfn|Wilkinson|2003|p=99–101}} When he is represented as a solar deity, he can also be depicted as a [[Scarab (artifact)|scarab]] and when in reference to his primeval origins he is also seen depicted as the primeval mound.{{sfn|Wilkinson|2003|pp=100–101}} In the Greco-Roman period, he was sometimes shown as a standing ape holding a bow and arrow.