Statue of a Standing Khonsu

ca. 664-525 BCE (Late Period)

5.7 cm 28.5 cm 8.2 cm

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Khonsu could be represented either as a youth or a falcon-headed male with a moon-disk and crescent on his head, as here. He is mentioned as a moon god in the pyramid texts as early as the 3rd millennium BCE. As the son of Amun and Mut he was worshipped in Karnak where he had...

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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1912, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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Egyptian

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