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

Relief of the Royal Ka Late Period or Ptolemaic PeriodAbydos, Egypt

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 67.69.2. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 67.69.2
Find spot: Abydos, Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Period or Ptolemaic Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 30 or reign of Ptolemy VI
Date: 381–343 B.C.E. or 186–145 B.C.E.
Date range: 381 BCE – 343 BCE
Materials: ['Limestone', 'pigment']
Height: 25.0 cm
Width: 35.5 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Relief of the Royal Ka (67.69.2). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/18716

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Object Label: According to Egyptian belief, the Royal Ka (soul) inhabited the legitimate king and migrated from the old to the new when the older king died. Some scholars have associated votive animal mummies with a ritual that strengthened the Royal Ka. Here, an artist portrayed the Ka as a royal bust on a standard wearing a crown of ostrich feathers, cobras, and the short ram’s horns associated with Amun, king of the gods. The figure also wears a protective cobra on his forehead. Caption: Relief of the Royal Ka, 381–343 B.C.E. or 186–145 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 9 13/16 x 14 x 1 3/4 in. (25 x 35.5 x 4.5 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 67.69.2. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (Gavin Ashworth, photographer))

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Found at Abydos

Deities Amun

Materials Limestone

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BKM-Accession 67.69.2 tier-2
BKM-Object 3760 tier-2

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