Basalt hawk-headed god Khonsu, Dyn. 20
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Links to other views:⇒ Larger View⇒ Front if scripting is off, click the ⇒ instead. Links to others from Dynasty 20Aegis-Menat of Tefnut and Shu, Dyn. 20Amulet of Ptah-Sokar, Dyn. 20-21 Bronze statuette of Anhur, Dyn. 20 Bronze statuette of Sakhmet, Dyn. 20 Cartonnage with Isis, New Kingdom Crude pottery shawabti, Late Dyn. 20 Crude pottery shawabti, Late Dyn. 20 Gilded funerary mask, Dyn. 20 Large amulet of Pataikos, Dyn. 20 Mummy cartonnage, New Kingdom Priest of Hapy, temple of Aswan, Dyn. 20 Ptah-Min of Memphis, Dyn. 20 Ruling king as Khonsu, Dyn. 20 Shawabti of Hor-Te-Ha, early Dyn. 20 Shawabti of the prophet of Amen, Dyn. 20 Unidentified king as Khnum, Dyn. 20 Links to others representing KhonsRuling king as Khonsu, Dyn. 20Scarab with God Khonsu, Dyn. 18 Links to others of type Statuette-animalBronze of Ibis-Thoth, 3rd Inter. PeriodBronze of Sakhmet seated, Dyn. 20-23 Bronze of Sakhmet seated, early Dyn. 18 Bronze Ra ensign, Early Dynastic Bronze statuette of Apis, Dyn. 18 Bronze statuette of Apis, Late Period Bronze statuette of Apis, New Kingdom Bronze statuette of Bastet, Dyn. 22 Bronze statuette of Bastet, Dyn. 26 Bronze statuette of Sakhmet, Dyn. 20 Gilded bronze of Bastet, Dyn. 22 Horus, Lord of the Two Lands. N.K. Ibis-headed Thoth with human body, Dyn.18 Oxyrynchus sacred fish, New Kingdom Thoth as a baboon, stone, 2700-2500 BC Unidentified king as Khnum, Dyn. 20 Wood statuette of Horus stiding, Dyn. 11 |
This basalt stone statuette depicts a seated figure of the hawk-headed god Khonsu, son of Amun and Mut in the Theban divine triad. Late New Kingdom, beginning of Dynasty 20 (1185-1145 BC). “In the 20th Dynasty (1186-1069 BC) a temple of Khonsu was built within the precincts of the temple of Amun at Karnak” (Shaw & Nicholson 1995:151). Intrigued by the feminine appearance of the chest, Khalil (1976:[2]269-275) offered two alternate interpretations. The simplest is that the modeling reflects some of the New Kingdom aesthetic canons for royal iconography, in which a voluminous chest was a sign of royal strength, as seen on the statue of Thutmose III in this collection. An alternate reading of this sculpture, derived from Dr. Abu Bakr’s interpretation of certain Old Kingdom artifacts, sees the falcon head as the father principle, the breasts as the mother principle, and the fusion of these as the son, resulting in a familial trinity embodied in a single subject. Bibliography (for this item)Khalil, Hassan M.1976 Preliminary Studies on the Sanusret Collection. Manuscript, Musée l’Egypte et le Monde Antique, Monaco-Ville, Monaco. ([2]269-275) Shaw, Ian, and Paul Nicholson 1995 The Dictionary of Ancient Egypt. British Museum Press, London, United Kingdom. (133, 151) |
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