Obelisk 304-30 B.C. Ptolemaic Period Carved more than two thousand years after the earliest knownobelisks, this is one of four examples erected in the tomb of thesacred rams at Elephantine, the southern border of Egypt proper.The deliberately roughened surfaces indicate that texts were onceinscribed on layers of stucco that have now fallen away, so we donot know the exact form of their dedications. However, we do knowthat the rams buried here were considered incarnations of thecreator god Khnum, patron of the First Cataract region and a divinityclosely associated with the sun god Re. These obelisks can betraced back to much earlier examples in mortuary contexts as wellas to temple obelisks from this area that were dedicated to thecomposite deity Khnum-Re.. Obelisk. 304-30 B.C.. Sandstone. Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt, Southern Upper Egypt, Elephantine, tomb of a sacred ram, chapel, Cledat and Clermont-Ganneau excavations, March 1907

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Obelisk 304-30 B.C. Ptolemaic Period Carved more than two thousand years after the earliest knownobelisks, this is one of four examples erected in the tomb of thesacred rams at Elephantine, the southern border of Egypt proper.The deliberately roughened surfaces indicate that texts were onceinscribed on layers of stucco that have now fallen away, so we donot know the exact form of their dedications. However, we do knowthat the rams buried here were considered incarnations of thecreator god Khnum, patron of the First Cataract region and a divinityclosely associated with the sun god Re. These obelisks can betraced back to much earlier examples in mortuary contexts as wellas to temple obelisks from this area that were dedicated to thecomposite deity Khnum-Re.. Obelisk. 304-30 B.C.. Sandstone. Ptolemaic Period. From Egypt, Southern Upper Egypt, Elephantine, tomb of a sacred ram, chapel, Cledat and Clermont-Ganneau excavations, March 1907

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