Depictions

Depictions

Images and statues of Amun usually show him as a man with a blue or black skin.

• He wears a double-plumed headdress and the plumes have alternating colors of either red and green or red and blue.
• Amun wears several pieces of jewelry including a broad collar or necklace, bracelets and armlets.
• His clothing is either a kilt or a tunic with decorated shoulder straps.
• Amun holds an ankh in his right hand and a scepter in his left hand and sometimes a bull’s tail hangs from his tunic.

Amun is also depicted with various animal heads. On occasion, he has a hawk’s head with a sun disc encircled by a serpent on top. Other depictions show Amun with a ram’s head.

Depictions of Amun with his wife Amunet show him with:

• An uraeus (upright form of an Egyptian cobra) head and Amunet with a cat head,
• or Amun with a frog head and Amunet with an uraeus head.

Legends

Amun was a creator god and a force that created life. Instead of featuring in a story myth, many writings about him tell how he helped people gain a victory or solve a problem. Other inscriptions tell of oracles Amun gave to petitioners. His statue would move (hidden priests manipulated it) to answer a question.