Wepwawet
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
This jackal god sometimes appears on a standard (a symbol carried on a pole) with a uraeus-snake and an enigmatic object scholars describe as “the king’s placenta.” On reliefs, this standard preceded the king in processions as early as the first Egyptian king, Narmer.
Wepwawet, whose name means “opener of ways/roads,” at first led kings into battle but later became associated with leading the deceased to the next world.
MEDIUM
Bronze
DATES
664–332 B.C.E.
DYNASTY
Dynasty 26 to Dynasty 31
PERIOD
Late Period
DIMENSIONS
2 9/16 x 11/16 x 2 3/4 in. (6.5 x 1.8 x 7 cm)
(show scale)
ACCESSION NUMBER
16.580.168
CREDIT LINE
Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour
MUSEUM LOCATION
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CAPTION
Wepwawet, 664–332 B.C.E. Bronze, 2 9/16 x 11/16 x 2 3/4 in. (6.5 x 1.8 x 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.580.168. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 16.580.168_side1_PS2.jpg)
IMAGE
profile, 16.580.168_side1_PS2.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2011
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