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The sacred geese of Amun
General Information

This small votive statue depicts sacred geese of Amun sitting on a limestone pedestal. There are a total of nine birds of different sizes: two large, three medium, and four small geese. They are very close to each other and together occupy the entire upper surface of the pedestal. On the front of the pedestal is an inscription identifying the object as a votive gift.

Number 4544
Storing Place The Roemer and Pelizaeus Museum - Hildesheim - Germany
Material Limestone
Type Statue
Type of Script Hieroglyphic
Discovery Place Deir El-Madinah - Luxor - Egypt
Width 17.2 cm
Height 7.5 cm
Thickness 11.5 cm
Historical Period The Nineteenth Dynasty – The New Kingdom
Inscriptions on the Monument
Transliteration
( If the Hieroglyphic,Demotic or Hieratic text is not appearing clear, install this file )

iri.n TAi-mDAt n imn m st-mAat oni mAa-xrw Dd=f mn wAH n smnw n imn


Translation

"[1] Made by the relief sculptor of Amun in the "Place of Truth", Keni the justified. He says: Permanence and duration for the geese of Amun."

Scientific Publishing

B. Porter, & R.L.B. Moss, , Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs, and Paintings, vol. I , Theban necropolis, (Oxford 1964), 714.
H., Kayser, Die ägyptischen Altertümer im Roemer-Pelizaeus-Museum in Hildesheim, (Hildesheim 1973), 94.
H., Kayser, Die Gänse des Amon : Eine Neuerwerbung des Pelizaeus-Museums, in: Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Abteilung Kairo 16, (Wiesbaden 1958), 193, 14.
K.A.,Kitchen, Ramesside Inscriptions : Historical and Biographical,vol. III, (Oxford 1980), 682 (Nr. 6).

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