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Granite gneiss ram of Amun
Granite gneiss ram of Amun
A figure if King Taharqa stands between the ram's folded legs, symbolically placed under its divine protection.
From Temple T at Kawa. Late Period / Napatan, 25th Dynasty (about 630BC)
Acquired from the Oxford University excavations in Nubia with the assistance of The Art Fund (NACF) AN1931.553
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Two sets of paired sandstone rams were discovered in front of the first and second pylons at Temple T at Kawa. The Ashmolean example as paired with the statue now housed at the British Museum. The rams were found by Professor Francis Llewellyn Griffith during his excavations at the Temple in 1930-31.
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(F.Ll. Griffth in Sudan Notes and Records Vol. 14 1931) journals.uofk.edu/images/stories/Sudan/vol14.pdf
Granite gneiss ram of Amun
Granite gneiss ram of Amun
A figure if King Taharqa stands between the ram's folded legs, symbolically placed under its divine protection.
From Temple T at Kawa. Late Period / Napatan, 25th Dynasty (about 630BC)
Acquired from the Oxford University excavations in Nubia with the assistance of The Art Fund (NACF) AN1931.553
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Two sets of paired sandstone rams were discovered in front of the first and second pylons at Temple T at Kawa. The Ashmolean example as paired with the statue now housed at the British Museum. The rams were found by Professor Francis Llewellyn Griffith during his excavations at the Temple in 1930-31.
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(F.Ll. Griffth in Sudan Notes and Records Vol. 14 1931) journals.uofk.edu/images/stories/Sudan/vol14.pdf