Sentence examples for Amun from inspiring English sources
proper noun
An Egyptian wind deity associated with the town of Thebes; later (post-16th century BC) the creator deity.
"The orientation of the temple has the sun directly pouring into the temple twice a year," said Mr. Lobban, suggesting that it was dedicated to the ancient Egyptian sun god Amun.
Tamut lived in Thebes around 900BC and had a top job as a temple singer, or chantress, of the god Amun.
Amon, also spelled Amun, Amen, or Ammon, Egyptian deity who was revered as king of the gods.
The new city of Akhetaten was built in honour of Akhenaten's new-found religious cult of Aten - but the move was not well-received by the general public of ancient Egypt and in particular by the priests of Amun, who viewed Akhenaten's new one-god religion as heretical.
She often smiles slightly, projecting confident oneness with divinity: she was not only, like most pharaohs, an incarnation of the falcon-headed celestial deity, Horus, and a child of the sun god, Re, but also somehow physically a daughter of Amun, the Egyptian Zeus.
They are inscribed with praise of the Pharaoh and, in the case of the amulet, "the hereditary prince and Great Steward of Amun" — a generous stretch, given that Senenmut was of relatively humble birth.
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(Her hieroglyph-packed cartouches style her the Horus, Golden Horus, Two Ladies, Son of Re, Lord of the Two Lands, King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Hatshepsut-united-with-Amun).
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He's not one, though: he was erected in the temple of Amun-Ra in Naukratis in around 300BC (a generation after Alexander's conquest), and his name, according to the hieroglyphs on his back, is Horemheb.
But once it was a city with perhaps 16,000 inhabitants, full of temples to gods such as Hera, Aphrodite and the Dioskouroi (Castor and Pollux), and dominated by a vast sanctuary dedicated to the Egyptian deity Amun-Ra, from which a sphinx-lined avenue led to the Canopic branch of the Nile, which long ago flowed here.
