Khnum
Place made:Egypt
Culture: Egyptian
Period: Late Period-Ptolemaic Period
Date: ca. 712-30 B.C.
Medium: Faience
Dimensions:
1 15/16 in. (4.9 cm)
Credit Line: Museum Purchase: Stark-Willson Collection
Object number: 86.138.587
Provenance: by purchase, the Stark family, Orange, Texas, between 1927 and 1929; by bequest, the Nelda C. and H. J. Lutcher Stark Foundation, 1965; by purchase, the San Antonio Museum of Art with funding from Mr. and Mrs. Robert Willson, 1986
Label Text
The ram-headed Khnum is a creator god. He fashioned both people and animals from clay on a potter’s wheel. His primary cult center is at Elephantine near the First Cataract of the Nile at the border of Egypt and Nubia. The Elephantine triad (or family group) includes Khnum, his consort Satet, a goddess who protected Egypt’s southern border with Nubia, and their offspring, the hunter goddess Anuket.
(Sarah Schellinger, 2018)
(Sarah Schellinger, 2018)
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