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Column base with rams and a lion
unknown1-100 AD
Royal Ontario Museum
Toronto, Canada
Served as a decorated base for a wooden post of a light, tent-like structure or baldachin. The decoration depicts three rams, each representing a different form of god Amani (Amun), and a lion, a sacred animal of gods Apedemak and Mahes.
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Details
- Title: Column base with rams and a lion
- Creator: unknown
- Date: 1-100 AD
- Location: Building M 200, Meroe, Sudan (ancient Nubia)
- Physical Dimensions: h36.8 x d8.9 cm
- Provenance: Gift of Sir Robert Mond (University of Liverpool Excavations Committee for the Garstang Excavations at Meroe, Sudan, 1909-1913)
- Type: Column base
- Medium: Egyptian faience
- Period: Meroitic period
- Accession Number: 921.4.1
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