Apis Bull Wall Painting

Item Overview

Title

Apis Bull Wall Painting

Date Created

1857

Collection

UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology (UEE)

Notes

Description

Horizontal
Painted
Article: Rituals Related To Animal Cults

Caption

Figure 1. Copy of a wall painting from the tomb of an Apis buried during the reign of Horemheb, showing the bull’s distinctive markings

Note

Mariette, Auguste 1857 Le Sérapeum de Memphis decouvert et décrit par Aug. Mariette. Ouvrage dédié à S. A. I. Mgr. le Prince Napoléon et publié sous les auspices de S. E. M. Achille Fould, ministre d’état. Paris: Gide.

Keywords

Genre

Wall Painting

Religion
Rituals Related to Animal Cults
Rituals
Cult and Ritual

Subject Geographic

Memphis

Subject Temporal

18th Dynasty
Reign of Horemheb
New Kingdom

Resource type

still image