Museo Egizio
Statue depicting Amon as a ram protecting a figure of king Amenhotep III
- Date
- 1390–1353 BCE
- Medium
- Stone / Granite
- Culture
- Egyptian
- Department
- Museo Egizio, Turin
- Institution
- Museo Egizio
- Object ID
- Cat_836
From the Museo Egizio record
A figure of Amenhotep III as Osiris stands between the front legs of the ram. There is a hole in the top of the ram’s head for the insertion of a solar disc and a metal Uraeus, associating the god Amon – whose animal form is the ram – with the sun god Re. this statue was found in the temple of Mut in Karnak, but it may have originally stood in Soleb in Nubia (present-day Sudan). Here Amenhotep III dedicated a temple to Amun-Re where similar ram statues have been found. The Turin statue may have been moved to Karnak during the 25th Dynasty, when Nubian sovereigns ruled Egypt. Dimensions: 83 cm x 120 cm x 203 cm. Museum location: Museum / Ground floor / Room 14. Image views available: 2.
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- Karnak — Luxor, EgyptMatched from the record’s own words: “Egypt, Luxor / Thebes, Karnak, Temple of Mut”
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