Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7652
Faience amulet, [ram-headed] Khnum. Illustration: No
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- ID
- EMC_JE_53948
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- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Amulets and pendants
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- Findspot
- Pit G 7652 A, room I
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- Material
- Faience
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- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number
- HUMFA_29-4-268e
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- Cairo Special Register number
- EMC_SR_7/5346
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- Date of Register Entry
- 04/19/1929, 04/20/1929
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- Object owned by
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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- Notes
- Two such amulets originally registered as HUMFA_29-4-268e; now in collection of Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_53945 and EMC_JE_53948).
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- Remarks
- These amulets depict a striding ram-headed male deity. Egypt had multiple ram gods and it is often difficult to identify which one is intended. This god may be Khnum, the patron deity of Elephantine (modern Aswan) or Harsaphes, the patron of Heracleopolis.
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- Site Name Eastern Cemetery
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- Type Object owned by
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