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Relief with Dieties and High Priestess
- Medium: Sandstone
- Possible Place Made: Karnak, Egypt
- Dates: ca. 710-670 B.C.E.
- Dynasty: late XXV Dynasty
- Period: Third Intermediate Period
- Dimensions: 28 15/16 x 31 1/8 x 1 3/4 in. (73.5 x 79 x 4.5 cm)
- Collections: Egyptian, Classical, and Ancient Middle Eastern Art
- Museum Location:
This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, 19th Dynasty to Roman Period, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor - Accession Number: 87.184.2
- Credit Line: Charles Edwin Wilbour Memorial Fund
- Image: Group, 87.184.1_87.184.2_SL1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
The relief on the right depicts the God's Wife of Amun Amunirdis I ,making an offering of Ma'at to the god Amun-Re. Behind Amun-Re stands Khonsu, his son by his chief consort Mut. These three divinities comprise the divine family of the Theban region.
The relief on the left shows Amun-Re and Mut. Because the two scenes are comparable though reversed, it seems likely that Amun-Re and Mut faced another God's Wife of Amun. The shallow sunk relief and the treatment of the faces are typical of Twenty-fifth Dynasty reliefs found on the small chapels in Thebes.
This text refers to these objects: 87.184.1; 87.184.2
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