King Horemheb with Amun-Ra

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
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King Horemheb with Amun-Ra, probably from the temple of Amun-Ra at Thebes, Karnak, possibly usurped from Tutankhamun (c. 1336-1327 BCE), 18th Dynasty, c. 1323-1295 BCE.

The inscriptions identify the headless king as Horemheb and the larger god as Amnu-Ra, here shown in his fertility aspect. The deity's phallus, now lost, was made separately. The statue was perhaps usurped from Tutankhamun, whose short reign had mostly been steered by Horemheb as regent and commander-in-chief. Numerous temple statues, particularly of Amun-Ram, were made at this time to replace those destroyed during the iconoclasm of Akhenaten's reign.

The British Museum, London.

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Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin
Associate Professor of Neurology and lover of the Cradle of Civilization, Mesopotamia. I'm very interested in Mesopotamian history and always try to take photos of archaeological sites and artifacts in museums, both in Iraq and around the world.

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