Faience amulet of Horus

Object(s) photograph: Site: Giza; view: G 7652

Faience amulet, [hawk-headed] Horus with [double] crown [of Upper and Lower Egypt]. Illustration: No

ID

EMC_JE_53951
Department

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Classification

Jewelry & adornment-Amulets and pendants
Findspot

Pit G 7652 A, room I
Material

Faience
Credit Line

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Harvard University-Boston Museum of Fine Arts excavation number

HUMFA_29-4-268c
Date of Register Entry

04/19/1929, 04/20/1929
Object owned by

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
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.