Ammon-Zeus

Ammon-Zeus (), or Zeus-Ammon , is a divinity gréco-Egyptian woman mixing the features with the god Égyptien Amon and with the Greek god Zeus. In French as in English and German one distinguishes the Egyptian divinity from the Greek divinity by the orthography: Egyptian Amon takes a m while Amen Greek takes two m . One explains the redoubling of the consonant by the etymology of the word: the Greeks, friants of puns, indeed put in report/ratio the name Ammon and the word hearts (), sand.

Iconography

It appears in the Greek iconography under human form, the girded temples of horns of ram.

On the coins, one often sees Alexandre with horns of rams, appears of Amen, but at the same time of Zeus. This currency was most widespread of all Antiquity. Manufacture was continued a long time after the death of the conqueror, in Macedonia until the advent of Démétrios and in Asia Mineure until the Magnesia battle.

Consultation of the oracle of Amen by Alexandre

Of all the history of the sanctuary of Zeus-Ammon the consultation of Alexandre Large the is certainly the most important moment.

Sanctuaries of Zeus-Ammon

In addition to Siwa and Kôm Oushim (or Karanis) in the Fayoum in Egypt, Zeus-Ammon was honoured in various places with the Greek world: with Aphytos in Chalcidique, with Thèbes in Béotie, with Sparte and Gytheion in Laconie.

Kôm Oushim

A temple gréco-Roman of north was dedicated to the god crocodile Sobek, to Sérapis and Zeus-Ammon.

Aphytis or Aphytos

The construction of the sanctuary of Zeus-Ammon in Chalcidique dates from first half of the IV E. It is a doric temple which comprises six columns in frontage and eleven on the sides. After the oracle of Siwa, it is the most important oracle of the god gréco-Egyptian.

Thèbes

In Béotie, even if the archaeological excavations could not until now locate its temple, we know by Pausanias that there was a worship with Zeus-Ammon. More precisely, Pausanias says that Pindare ordered from Calamis, celebrates it sculptor, a statue of Zeus-Ammon for the temple of the god with Thèbes.

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