Ram head for attachment
Unknown
ca. 1070–664 B.C. · Leaded bronze, precious metal leaf, copper alloy inlay in eye rims · Egyptian Art
Images of gods were carried out of temples on festival days on processional bark-shrines. Most often the image itself was concealed in a shrine, but sculpted heads at the prow and stern identified the god to the populace, royal statuary surrounded and protected the god hidden in the shrine, and other protective gods rode at the prow. This large ram's head would have appeared on Amun's processional barque.
- Artist
- Unknown
- Date
- ca. 1070–664 B.C.
- Medium
- Leaded bronze, precious metal leaf, copper alloy inlay in eye rims
- Department
- Egyptian Art
- Credit line
- Rogers Fund, 1945
