Faience amulet of Khnum
Faience amulet, [ram-headed] Khnum.
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- EMC_JE_53948
- Alternate IDs
- JE_53948; EMC_JE_53948; HUMFA_29-4-268e; 29-4-268e; EMC_SR_7/5346; SR_7/5346
- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Amulets and pendants
- Entry Date
- 04/19/1929, 04/20/1929
- Title
- Faience amulet of Khnum
- Medium
- Faience
- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Provenance
- Pit G 7652 A, room I
- 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).
- 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.