41-Striding Statuette of Amun-Re

Amun-Re was a solar creator god who ruled the air and the sky. His main cult site was Thebes. Amun strides forward, wearing a crown with double plumes and a sun disk. He is adorned with a broad collar necklace, armbands, and wristbands and wears a god’s curled beard and kilt. One arm is outstretched, while the other rests against his body. Holes in the god’s fists indicate they once held divine symbols, probably the was-scepter of prosperity and the ankh, based on similar statues.¹ The front socle base is inscribed with, “Amun, life-giver.” The left socle gives the dedicator of the figurine as “Udjahorresen, Padineith…”² Bronzes of this type appear in Memphis and Saqqara, both in funerary and temple contexts.³

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1. Cf. EMC CG 38007. ↩︎

2. Translation courtesy of Rune Nyord. ↩︎

3. Weiss 2012, 101–102, fig. 24. ↩︎