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You are wrong, lowly sweeper of the temple!

This is the god Amen-Ra. He is one of the many forms that the sun god took in Egyptian mythology. Amen-Ra was king of the gods and protector of the pharaoh when he went on military campaigns.
Egypt, Third Intermediate - Ptolemaic Periods
ca. 1070 - 30 B.C.

"Statue of Amen-Ra"
Bronze, 6-3/4 inches
Gift of the Estate of Emily and James Sibley Watson, 51.125
Collection of the Memorial Art Gallery

ODYSSEY HOME NEAR EAST Egypt GREECE ROME

© Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University,
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester and Dallas Museum of Art
For more information please contact odyssey@emory.edu.
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