A Wikipedia article on Amun, the ancient Egyptian deity of air and creation who rose to become the chief god of the Egyptian pantheon at Thebes. The article body illustrates his combined form with the sun god Re, Amun-Re, with a Third Intermediate Period amulet held by the Walters Art Museum.
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Assessment
Reliability Tier3
A crowd-edited tertiary reference, used here only for the pendant's caption and museum attribution, corroborated independently by the Wikimedia Commons file record transcribing the Walters Art Museum's own accession data for the same object. Citation
PublisherWikipedia
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amun
Source Typeencyclopedia
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Amun, Deities This source names Amun directly: "A Wikipedia article on Amun, the ancient Egyptian deity of air and creation who rose to become the chief god of the Egyptian pantheon at Thebes."
This source names Ancient Egyptians directly: "A Wikipedia article on Amun, the ancient Egyptian deity of air and creation who rose to become the chief god of the Egyptian pantheon at Thebes."
Thebes, Cities This source names Thebes directly: "chief god of the Egyptian pantheon at Thebes."
Claims Backed By This Source (9 claims)
This source backs 9 claims across the atlas. As facts: 5 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds.
Disposition By Topic
- Sources, 8 claims: 5 well-attested, 3 holds.
- Sacred Art & Iconography, 1 claims: 1 holds.
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