Ram-Headed God
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
The Egyptians represented the creator god Khnum with the head of a long-horned ram on a human body. Particular individual rams were treated as deities in life. As incarnations of the god, they were then mummified at death and buried with great ceremony.
MEDIUM
Bronze
DATES
664–332 B.C.E.
DYNASTY
Dynasty 26 to Dynasty 30
PERIOD
Late Period
DIMENSIONS
3 1/2 x 1 x 1 3/4 in. (8.9 x 2.5 x 4.4 cm)
(show scale)
ACCESSION NUMBER
37.682E
CREDIT LINE
Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Seated ram-headed deity in bronze. The god wears a shendyt kilt. Both hands are held, clenched in fists, atop his knees. A break atop his head indicates that he was once crowned with some object, probably a solar disk. If so, he might be identified as either Amun-Re or Khnum-Re.
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is not on view
CAPTION
Ram-Headed God, 664–332 B.C.E. Bronze, 3 1/2 x 1 x 1 3/4 in. (8.9 x 2.5 x 4.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.682E. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (Gavin Ashworth,er), 37.682E_Gavin_Ashworth_photograph.jpg)
IMAGE
overall, 37.682E_Gavin_Ashworth_photograph.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph (Gavin Ashworth, photographer), 2012
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