Faience amulet of Horus
Faience amulet, [hawk-headed] Horus with [double] crown [of Upper and Lower Egypt].
Illustration: No
Details
- ID
- EMC_JE_53950
- Alternate IDs
- EMC_JE_53950; JE_53950; HUMFA_29-4-268c; 29-4-268c; EMC_SR_7/5347; SR_7/5347
- Department
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Classification
- Jewelry & adornment-Amulets and pendants
- Entry Date
- 04/19/1929, 04/20/1929
- Title
- Faience amulet of Horus
- Medium
- Faience
- Credit Line
- Egyptian Museum, Cairo
- Provenance
- Pit G 7652 A, room I
- Notes
- Two such amulets originally registered as HUMFA_29-4-268c; now in collection of Egyptian Museum, Cairo (EMC_JE_53950 and EMC_JE_53951).
- Remarks
- These amulets depict a striding hawk-headed male deity, wearing the double crown of kingship. A number of Egyptian gods are portrayed as hawk-headed humans, making it difficult to identify those without distinguishing crowns. However, when the god wears the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt he is almost certainly Horus.