The Digital Ark: Early Modern Collections of Curiosities in England and Scotland, 1580-1700

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Amun ( - )

Major Egyptian deity who later became associated with Zeus in Greece, known as Zeus Ammon. Other biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amun References in Documents:
MS Book of Benefactors (MacGregor, ed.)

John Eliot, formerly at Exeter College and a Doctor of Medicine of both Universities, practised successfully in Canterbury and removed an exceptionally large urinary stone from the bladder of an eight-year-old girl with his own hands. He gave it to the Museum together with two naturally formed stones, one of them mounted in bronze, which resemble the horn of Ammon.

Thoresby, Musaeum Thoresbyanum (1713) The Image of Jupiter Ammon very well performed in solid Brass; it is little more than four Inches long, whereas that found in the Ruins of the Picts Wall, and lately in the Lord Lonsdale's Possession was rather more than six.