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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Myra Wysinger: [QB] From Musawwarat es-Sufra, Lion Temple Meroitic, 200 B.C. Berlin Museum [IMG]http://wysinger.homestead.com/200bc.jpg[/IMG] Three animal heads are shown side by side, accompanied below by their front paws. The ram's head in the center combines horns winding around the ears with an additional, horizontally turned pair of horns; both breeds of ram are symbolic form of Amun. The crown consists of two uraei, each wearing a sun-disk and cow's horns, then a large sun-disk with a band of uraei and two falcon plumes, which are flanked in turn by two more uraei. Between the front paws is a papyrus umbel. The lion heads wear the hem-hem crown above their horizontal ram's horns, consisting of stylized bundles of reeds and a sun-disk, flanked on each side by a single ostrich feather and uraeus. The lion on the right also wears a crescent moon. The two deities Shu and Tefnut, closely associated with Amun's residence of Gebel Barkal, are probably represented by the two lions. [b]Meroitic Bowl[/b] Post-Meroitic, fourth to fifth century A.D. [IMG]http://wysinger.homestead.com/bowl10.jpg[/IMG] The continuity of the Meroitic kingdom in the fourth and fifth century the most important site is el-Hobagi, situated not far from Wad Ban Naga on the left (west) bank of the Nile. Instead of the pyramid form, the traditional tumulus reappears, now surrounded by a large temenos wall. Although these are usually seen as typically post-Meroitic complexes, the burial equipment found in the el-Hobagi tombs indicates just the opposite. Their inventory is strictly Meroitic; hence the fall of the city of Meroe and its royal cemetery is not delineated by sharp, historical break. The continuity of Meroitic culture extends into fourth and fifth centuries A.D. An inscription in Meroitic hieroglyphs mentioning the words "king" and "god" appears on this bronze bowl. This is the latest known Meroitic text discovered so far. -- Dietrich Wildung (1997) [/QB][/QUOTE]
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