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Amon and Taharqa

Amon and Taharqa

Granite statue of Amon in the form of a ram protecting King Taharqa, 25th dynasty,...

© Mark Large—ANL/REX/Shutterstock.com

priest of Amon

priest of Amon

Statue of a priest of Amon, diorite, from Thebes, Egypt, 381–362 bce;...

Photograph by Katie Chao. Brooklyn Museum, New York, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 52.89

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