Lot n° 121
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HARPOONING HORUS - Lot 121
HARPOONING HORUS
Votive statuette representing the hieracocephalic god Horus, in the attitude of the
walking, dressed in the chendjit loincloth, wearing the three-part wig topped with the pschent.
He raises his right arm, in a threatening gesture, and extends his left arm towards his loincloth.
Bronze.
Visible gaps, surface cleaning.
Egypt, Late Period - Ptolemaic Period.
Height: 17.5 cm
Horus is one of the oldest and most important deities of the Egyptian pantheon. Its name ("Herou") which means "the Far Away" is a reference to the majestic flight of the falcon in the heights of the sky. He thus becomes a celestial deity confused with heaven itself. According to Hermopolitan theology, he is the posthumous son of Osiris and Isis who fights to obtain the royalty of his father, which Set tried to dispossess him of. By having integrated the royal aspect of Horus, the priests made him one of the main actors of the religion and enriched the myths of the bitter struggle. Likewise, the pantheon was augmented by all aspects of the god, from the young Harpocrates hidden in the swamps of Chemmis, to Harendotes, the avenger of his father. Horus harpoonist was particularly venerated in Sebennytos where a temple was dedicated to him. Iconographically, it can trample a hippopotamus, an antelope, an oryx, a crocodile or two captives.
Bibliography: J. & L. Aubert, Egyptian Bronzes and Gold, Paris, 2001, pp. 237-239.
Provenance: old German collection built up at the beginning of the 20th century.
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