Ram head for attachment

Third Intermediate Period

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 125

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.

Ram head for attachment, Leaded bronze, precious metal leaf, copper alloy inlay in eye rims

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Ram head for attachment, Leaded bronze, precious metal leaf, copper alloy inlay in eye rims
Ram head for attachment, Leaded bronze, precious metal leaf, copper alloy inlay in eye rims
Ram head for attachment, Leaded bronze, precious metal leaf, copper alloy inlay in eye rims
Ram head for attachment, Leaded bronze, precious metal leaf, copper alloy inlay in eye rims
Ram head for attachment, Leaded bronze, precious metal leaf, copper alloy inlay in eye rims

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