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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;+VGO.DVCKS, post: 4949895, member: 110504&quot;]...I&#039;ve posted this before, but I&#039;m wondering, is it time?&nbsp; Just for one instance of the Pharoahnic prototype, Amun (as in, Tut-Ankh-Amun), from a c. 3rd-c. BCE amulet from Meroe.&nbsp; If you squint, you can see the curved horns.&nbsp; (This came with lots of solid provenance, by way of Christie&#039;s.)[ATTACH=full]1189816[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1189817[/ATTACH]</p><p>The Meroitic (and before that, the Napatan) kingdom had direct political and dynastic descent from the 25th pharaohnic dynasty.&nbsp; As such, each of the succeeding polities had a decidedly conservative cosmological bias, especially where Amun was concerned.&nbsp; Amun was effectively the dynasty&#039;s patron deity.</p><p>...Right, and as of the 3rd c. BCE, Meroe had direct contact with Ptolemaic Egypt.&nbsp; Apparently on a wide spectrum, ranging from warfare to what almost looks like cooperation, notably relating to one temple of Amun that was on the border between them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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