IV. Egyptian Art
Part 2: Living with the Gods
DU1701 Periods of Art History I
Heart-scarab amulet, glazed
and inlay, ca. 1375–1275BCE
London, British Museum
Winged Scarab Amulet, ca. 664–332 BCE
New York, Metropolitan Museum
From the Tomb of
Tutankhamun
Heart-scarab of Hatnefer, serpentinite, gold, from
the tomb of Hatnefer, ca. 1492–1473 BCE
New York, Metropolitan Museum
Wedjat Eye Amulet, ca. 1,070–664 BCE,
Egypt, faience and aragonite, 6,5 cm large
New York, Metropolitan Museum
Wedjat Eye Amulets, Ptolemaic period
New York, Metropolitan Museum
Baboon (Thot), faience, ca. 664–525 BCE
New York, Metropolitan Museum
Thot-Baboon, faience, 3,93 x 2,45, 2,53 cm, ca. 664–332 CE
Baltimore, Walters Art Museum
Chalice in the form of a blue lotus,
Tuna el-Gebel region, faience
ca. 945–664 BCE
New York, Metropolitan Museum
“William” the Hippopotamus, faience,
from a tomb, ca. 1961–1878 BCE
New York, Metropolitan Museum
Funerary stela with a man smelling a lotus flower
(with votive formula), ca. 1786–1650 BCE
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Detail of a funerary stela with funerary
meal, ca. 1963–1786 BCE
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Capital in the shape of a lotus flower,
Temple of Horus, Edfu, ca. 380–362 BCE
Tomb-painting with Osiris and his four sons
standing on a lotus flower, from the Tomb of
Kynebu (Thebes), ca. 1130–1129 BCE
London, British Museum
Green glazed composition
ankh-symbol, 21,3 x 9,3 cm,
ca. 600–550 BCE
London, British Museum
Wooden ankh-symbol
16th – 11th century BCE
London, British Museum
Glazed amulet with ankhsign
combined with other
symbols, ca. 700–500 BCE
London, British Museum
Pharaoh Ramses II with
Horus, painted limestone,
ca. 1275 BCE, from the
temple Abydos
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Funerary shroud of a child from Antinoe, late 3rd century CE
Louvre Museum, Paris
Limestone stela decorated with an ankh flanked by two
crosses, 5th–6th century CE / London, British Museum
Sandstone stela with cross flanked by two ankhs,
with coptic inscription, 7th century CE
London, British Museum
Horus the Child on crocodiles, black steatite,
ca. 380–343 BCE (30th dynasty)
Baltimore, Walters Art Museum
Horus the Child on crocodiles, black steatite,
Ptolemaic period, 3rd century BCE
Brooklyn Museum
Horus on crocodiles, limestone, New Empire,
1580–1077 BCE
Avignon, Musée Calvet
Monumental Bes capital, from the Dendera
temple complex, Temple of Hathor Bronze statuette of Bes, solid cast, 525–530 BCE
Cleveland Museum of Art
Roman floor mosaic from Antioch
House of the Evil Eye, 2nd century CE
Antakya, Hatay Arkeoloji Müzesi, Inv.-Nr. 1024
Horus the child on the crocodiles
stela, black steatite, Ptolemaic
period, 305–330 BCE
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Miniature Horus stela, 5,8 x
4 x 0,6 cm, ca. 664–332 BCE
Paris, Musée du louvre
Stela of Horus on the Crocodiles
with preserved basin
Cairo, Archaeological Museum
Metternich stela, metagreywacke stone, 85,5 x 33,5 x 7,2 cm,
360–343 BCE (reign of Nectabo II)
New York, Metropolitan Museum
“‘Come out onto the ground, you poison, so
that hearts may rejoice and light may pervade!
I am Thoth, Re’s eldest son, whom Atum
and the company of gods commanded to
make Horus well for his mother Isis’ – and to
make well the afflicted as well. ‘Horus!
Horus! Your life-force is your protection, and
your (own) conduct is helping you. The
poison is dead, its heat driven off, because it
has stung the son of the Mighty One. Go
back to your houses, (you Delta people)!
Horus is alive for his mother Isis’ – and the
afflicted as well.”
Healing statue of a priest of
Bastet, 4th century BCE
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Statue of Djedhor the Healer, ca. 320 BCE
Cairo, Archaeological Museum
Horus killing a crocodile, limestone sculpture,
Coptic Egypt, ca. 275 BCE – 400 CE
Paris, Musée du Louvre
Bronze apotropaic amulet with Holy
Rider spearing a female demon, from the
Tomb 30, Northern Cemetey of Beth
Shean (ancient Nysa-Scythopolis), Israel,
4,5 x 2,3 cm, ca. 300–400 CE
From the tomb of pharaoh Ramses III
Valley of Kings, 1186–1155 BCE
Apophis (or Apep), relief from the temple of
Horus, Idfū, Egypt