Title: Tile with seated Tatenen (or Ptah-Tatenen)

Period: New Kingdom, Ramesside Period

Dynasty: Dynasty 19

Reign: likely reign of Ramesses II

Date: ca. 1279–1213 BCE

Geography: From Egypt; Probably from Eastern Delta, Tell el-Yahudiya

Medium: Faience

Dimensions: H. 12 × W. 10.2 × D. 2.5 cm (4 3/4 × 4 × 1 in.)

Credit Line: Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889

Object Number: 89.2.649

Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art

During the Ramesside Period, Ptah was frequently combined with another creator deity, Tatenen ("Rising Land," likely a reference to the first mound of earth). Tatenen typically wears a distinctive crown with two wide spiral ram horns, two curled ostrich feathers, and a sun disk. The merged deity Ptah-Tatenen has this same crown and retains none of Ptah’s usual attributes. Therefore, this tile could represent Tatenen alone or Ptah-Tatenen.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/divine-egypt/exhibition-objects