Tales from the Two LandsThe relief in this photo comes from the same site and time as the ram headed sphinx I posted about a couple of weeks ago – Kawa in Sudan during the reign of Taharqo of the 25th Dynasty. And it also depicts the god Amun, this time in a scene of the pharaoh offering to the gods.
The scene is carved on the west wall of a shrine built by Taharqo in a temple at Kawa. The temple including the shrine was excavated in the early 20th Century, and whilst much remains in Sudan this shrine was brought back to the Ashmolean Museum where it still is.
Around the four walls are scenes of Taharqo making offerings to different groups of deities, with the east wall being Amun along with the other deities of Thebes and this west wall is Amun along with the other deities of Kawa, namely Anukis Nethy, Satis and Anukis Ba.
I particularly like the headdress that Amun has in this carving – the sun disk has its own array of protective serpents, each with their own sun disk. And on the central larger one you can still see traces of paint, showing that it was a reddish colour.
It is now in the Ashmolean Museum, acc. no.: AN1936.661.
See it on my photo site: https://photos.talesfromthetwolands.org/picture.php?/2057/category/17
Jigsaw Puzzles:
easier: https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=323a0e13e371
harder: https://www.jigsawplanet.com/?rc=play&pid=256d6438c254
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