Ashayet

In the novel Death Comes as the End, Ashayet was the wife of Imhotep, and the mother of his three children. She died several years earlier.

After a number of death's in the family, Mersu the priest suggested that Imhotep offer a petition prayer to Ashayet asking for her protection. As Mersu put it, Ashayet came from a powerful and influential family. Her brother was the vizier of Thebes. She could invoke powerful interests in the Land of the Dead to intervene on Imhotep's behalf.