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A coin depicting Alexander the Great, conqueror of Egypt, with Horns of Amon on his head

The horns of Ammon were curling ram horns, used as a symbol of the Egyptian deity Ammon (also spelled Amun or Amon). Because of the visual similarity, they were also associated with the fossils shells of ancient snails and cephalopods, the latter now known as ammonite because of that historical connection.[1]

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Horns of Ammon

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The horns of Ammon were curling ram horns, used as a symbol of the Egyptian deity Ammon (also spelled Amun or Amon). Because of the visual similarity...

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Horns of Alexander

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originally as the Horns of Ammon. Alexander's horns came with connotations of political and/or religious legitimacy, including indications of his status as...

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Amun

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appearance of the Kush ram deity, and depictions related to Amun sometimes had small ram's horns, known as the Horns of Ammon. A solar deity in the form of a ram...

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Horned deity

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Earth, and one of the titles of Ammon was "the two-horned." Alexander was depicted with the horns of Ammon as a result of his conquest of ancient Egypt...

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Ammonoidea

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ammonis cornua ("horns of Ammon") because the Egyptian god Ammon (Amun) was typically depicted wearing rams' horns. Often, the name of an ammonite genus...

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Khnum

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spiraled horns (based on the extinct ovis longipes palaeoaegyptiacus), but his representation later evolved to feature the down-turned horns of Ammon in the...

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Theories about Alexander the Great in the Quran

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depict the head of a clean-shaven man with two horns. According to a recent theory, the bearded figure with horns is actually Zeus-Ammon and the clean-shaved...

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Marco Polo sheep

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spiraling horns which have been measured having a span up to 140 cm (55 in). They have the longest horns of all sheep, with the longest individual horn ever...

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Altai argali

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also have some of the heaviest and most elaborate horns. The horns of mature rams normally weigh 45 to 50 pounds, with large rams’ horns weighing up to...

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Hippocampus

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called Ammon's horn), and the dentate gyrus. In Alzheimer's disease (and other forms of dementia), the hippocampus is one of the first regions of the brain...

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Libyan Sibyl

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prophetic priestess presiding over the Oracle of Zeus-Ammon (Zeus represented with the Horns of Ammon) at Siwa Oasis in the Libyan Desert. The term sibyl...

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Argali

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The argali (Ovis ammon), also known as the mountain sheep, is a wild sheep that roams the highlands of western East Asia, the Himalayas, Tibet, and the...

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Index of Egyptian mythology articles

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Benben – Duat – Land of Manu – Neter-khertet Ankh – Crook and flail – Djed – Eye of Horus – Eye of Ra – Hennu – Horns of Ammon – Imiut fetish – Nebu...

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Alexander the Great in Arabic tradition

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coinage as the son of Zeus Ammon, wearing what would become the Horns of Alexander as originally signified by the Horns of Ammon. Legends of Alexander's exploits...

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Alexander the Great

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after his death, currency depicted him adorned with horns, using the Horns of Ammon as a symbol of his divinity. The Greeks interpreted this message –...

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Hemhem crown

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collaboration of the nemes and the hemhem crown. Horns of Alexander Horns of Ammon Stronach & Gopnik 2009. Goebs 2013. (June, 2014) Crowns of Egypt. Land of Pyramids...

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Fossil

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look like the tongues of people or snakes. He also wrote about the horns of Ammon, which are fossil ammonites, whence the group of shelled octopus-cousins...

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List of people who have been considered deities

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Incarnation List of avatar claimants List of Buddha claimants List of deities List of demigods List of Mahdi claimants List of messiah claimants List of people...

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The Linus Pauling Quartet

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entitled Bag of Hammers, in September 2012. A heavier sounding release than the material presented on Horns of Ammon, it also included one of the first examples...

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Ptolemy Ceraunus

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design as earlier coinage of Lysimachus: the head of Alexander the Great with the horn of Ammon on the obverse and a depiction of Athena seated, holding...

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Amman

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to as Rabbaṯ Bənē ʿAmmōn (רַבַּת בְּנֵי עַמּוֹן) or simply Rabbā (רַבָּה), and it appears in English translations as "Rabbath Ammon". Ptolemy II Philadelphus...

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Hippocampal sclerosis

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Bratz.: 565  In 1927, Spielmeyer described cell loss of all hippocampal subfields, the total Ammon's horn sclerosis pattern, and in 1966, Margerison and Corsellis...

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Alexander the Great in Islamic tradition

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(2021-10-25), "Dhul-Qarnayn, The One of the Two Horns, in the Latin Glosses to the Qur'an", Dhul-Qarnayn, The One of the Two Horns, in the Latin Glosses to the...

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Classical albedo features on Mars

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(/ˈkæmpaɪ/) – fields Cherso (/ˈkɜːrsoʊ/) – peninsula Cornu (/ˈkɔːrnjuː/) – horn, peninsula Depressio (/dɪˈprɛʃioʊ/) – lowland Fastigium (/fæsˈtɪdʒiəm/) –...

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Bighorn sheep

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of desert bighorn sheep (O. c. nelsoni) Bighorn sheep are named for the large, curved horns borne by the rams (males). Ewes (females) also have horns...

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Mouflon

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arkal and O. v./o. bochariensis, grouped with two different clades of argali (Ovis ammon). The ancestral sheep is presumed to have had 60 chromosomes, as...

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Bill Deal and the Rhondels

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2003) - vocals, organ, electric piano, bass pedals (1959-1983) Ammon Tharp (born Ammon Chester Tharp on July 5, 1942, in Norfolk, Virginia, died September...

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Pronghorn

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horn sheaths that branch and have a forward-pointing tine, unlike the horns of species from the ox family Bovidae. Pronghorns were first seen and described...

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2011 South Asian Winter Games

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altitude areas. The male has massive wrinkled horns up to 70 inches in length which forms a spiral, while the horns of the female are much smaller. It weighs...

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