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Ram-Headed Lotus Column (Amun)

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 35.932. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 35.932
Find spot: Dendera, Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Third Intermediate Period or Late Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 22 to Dynasty 26
Date: ca. 945–525 B.C.E.
Date range: 945 BCE – 525 BCE
Materials: ['Black granite', 'pigment']
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Ram-Headed Lotus Column (Amun) (35.932). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/18919

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Description

Object Label: This image of a ram’s head represents a god, perhaps Amun, king of the gods. He wears two divine symbols: a uraeus-snake perched at his forehead and a sun disk (now damaged). When an animal wears divine symbols in Egyptian art, it indicates that it is associated with a god, emphasizing the special quality they share—in this case, the potency of the ram. Caption: Ram-Headed Lotus Column (Amun), ca. 945–525 B.C.E.. Black granite, pigment, 10 1/2 x 7 1/4 x 10 in., 26 lb. (26.7 x 18.4 x 25.4 cm, 11.79kg). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mrs. George D. Pratt, 35.932. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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.

A small stone sculptural element depicting a ram-headed figure (or ram’s head/face) emerging above a rounded base, shown frontally against a plain background.

The image shows a carved, rounded sculpture with a ram-like head/face: heavy, almond-shaped eyes and a stylized muzzle, with prominent, curved ram horns extending to either side. The surface is worn with chipped edges and loss of small details. The head sits above a trapezoidal/columnar body that narrows slightly downward into a rounded pedestal/base. No clearly legible hieroglyphic text is visible on the provided view. There are no unmistakable cartouches (royal name inscriptions) visible. The object appears to be made of dark stone (consistent with black granite), though fine pigment details are not clearly distinguishable in this lighting; any color is limited and could be surface staining or remaining pigment. Overall, the visible ram-headed imagery is consistent with the catalogue’s identification as an Amun ram-headed lotus-column element, but the lotus-column form itself is not clearly shown from this angle, so attribution of the lotus column element remains only partially verifiable from the image.

royal Third Intermediate Period or Late Period (as catalogued; exact date unclear from image alone) fragmentary

Deities Amun (ram-headed depiction; specific identification not directly confirmable beyond ram imagery)

Materials dark stone (likely black granite)

Connections

Found at Dendera

Deities Amun

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 35.932 tier-2
BKM-Object 44552 tier-2

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From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
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Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.