Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue

Ram-Headed God

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.682E. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.682E
Find spot: Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 26 to Dynasty 30
Date: 664–332 B.C.E.
Date range: 664 BCE – 332 BCE
Materials: ['Bronze']
Height: 8.9 cm
Width: 2.5 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Ram-Headed God (37.682E). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/18343

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Description

Object Label: The Egyptians represented the creator god Khnum with the head of a long-horned ram on a human body. Particular individual rams were treated as deities in life. As incarnations of the god, they were then mummified at death and buried with great ceremony. Caption: Ram-Headed God, 664–332 B.C.E.. Bronze, 3 1/2 x 1 x 1 3/4 in. (8.9 x 2.5 x 4.4 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.682E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (Gavin Ashworth, photographer))

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Bronze figurine depicting a standing, ram-headed deity with a human-like torso and legs, hands held near the body.

The image shows a dark bronze cast figurine standing upright on a rectangular white display base. The figure has a clearly ram-like head with projecting horns (one on each side) and a human-like face with incised features. The body is simplified but anatomically suggestive: a bare torso, defined arms with the forearms held close to the chest/abdomen, and legs with feet planted on the ground. A belt or girdle-like band is indicated around the waist area. No painted surface, inlay, or additional attributes are clearly visible at this resolution. The background is a neutral gray, and no inscriptions, cartouches, or accompanying text are visible.

religious Late Period (per catalogue; image does not provide reliable dating features) good

Deities ram-headed god (specific deity unknown)

Materials bronze

Connections

Deities Khnum ram-headed god

Materials Bronze

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.682E tier-2
BKM-Object 4080 tier-2

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