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Ostracon depicting Amun as a Ram (Acc. 9658) Limestone flakes or pottery shards, called ostraca, provided a cheap, smooth surface for writing. Many thousands of ostraca survive carrying written inscriptions and rough sketches This is a pottery ostracon, measuring 14.4x10.3cm with an ink sketch showing the prow of the sacred boat of the god Amun, which is decorated with a ram's head and a royal cobra (uraeus). The line of hieroglyphs over the head of the ram reads, "Amun-Re, the Light of Day." And the column of hieroglyphs in front of the ram, reads, "Beloved of Amun-Re, Lord of the Sky, Great God." This piece dates to the Egyptian New Kingdom (1539-1075BC) and was donated to the Manchester Museum in 1938 by George Spiegelberg. It is hypothesised that this artifact is from village of Deir el-Medina, built to house the workers involved in the construction of tombs in and around the Valley of the Kings. Hundreds of similar sketches on ostraca have been discovered there. Deir el-Medina was home to a variety of deities, local forms – differentiated by the addition of various epithets – of the gods worshipped in major state temples. Amun-Re was worshipped on the opposite side of the river to the village, at the great temple of Karnak, and is well attested in other contexts in the form of a ram. |
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