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Ram head made for attachment to a barque

Third Intermediate Period
ca. 1070–664 BCE
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 899
Images of gods were carried out of temples on festival days on processional bark-shrines. Most often the image itself was concealed in a shrine, but sculpted heads at the prow and stern identified the god to the populace, royal statuary surrounded and protected the god hidden in the shrine, and other protective gods rode at the prow. This large ram's head would have appeared on Amun's processional barque.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Ram head made for attachment to a barque
  • Period: Third Intermediate Period
  • Dynasty: Dynasty 21–25
  • Date: ca. 1070–664 BCE
  • Geography: From Egypt
  • Medium: Leaded bronze, precious metal leaf, copper alloy inlay in eye rims
  • Dimensions: H.15.8 × W. 10.2 × D. 13.5 cm (6 7/32 × 4 × 5 5/16 in)
  • Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1945
  • Object Number: 45.2.9
  • Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art

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