Relief with Dieties and High Priestess

This text refers to these objects: ' 87.184.2; 87.184.1

Relief with Dieties and High Priestess

The relief on the right depicts the God's Wife of Amun Amunirdis I ,making an offering of Ma'at to the god Amun-Re. Behind Amun-Re stands Khonsu, his son by his chief consort Mut. These three divinities comprise the divine family of the Theban region.
The relief on the left shows Amun-Re and Mut. Because the two scenes are comparable though reversed, it seems likely that Amun-Re and Mut faced another God's Wife of Amun. The shallow sunk relief and the treatment of the faces are typical of Twenty-fifth Dynasty reliefs found on the small chapels in Thebes.

• Culture: Egyptian
• Medium: Sandstone
• Possible Place Made: Karnak, Egypt
• Dates: ca. 710-670 B.C.E.
• Dynasty: late XXV Dynasty
• Period: Third Intermediate Period
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