Zeus & 5731 Zeus Asteroid - NYC, NY
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N 40° 46.720 W 073° 57.767
18T E 587523 N 4514704
This marble sculpture is located in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan.
Waymark Code: WMKB9B
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 03/13/2014
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This marble bust of Zeus in entitled "Zeus Ammon" because it depicts Zeus with the features of Egyptian god Ammon-Ra. A placard at the site dates the work to 120-160 AD and is believed to have been found near the mouth of the Nile. It also indicates that an oracle had proclaimed Alexander the Great to be the son of Zeus-Ammon. Apparently the horns of Ammon have been broken off this piece but Wikipedia's article on Ammon (
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Zeus, of course was the supreme god of the Greeks. Read more about him at (
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Wikipedia's article on the asteroid (
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"5731 Zeus (1988 VP4) is an Apollo asteroid and Near-Earth object discovered on November 4, 1988 by C. S. Shoemaker at Palomar Observatory. Based on its observed brightness and assumed albedo it is estimated to have a diameter between 2.1 and 4.7 km."