EGYPTIAN MAGIC CIPPUS WITH HORUS Late Period, 664-332 BC A steatite cippus depicting Horus as a child with sidelock, carved in high relief, standing facing on two overlapping crocodiles, holding snakes and scorpions aloft, with a lion hanging from his right hand and an antelope from his left; wedjat eyes above; the reverse and sides with five rows of protective figures and three rows of hieroglyphs below. 82 grams, 87mm (3 1/2"). Condition Fine condition. Provenance Property of a Connecticut, USA, collector; acquired from a German private collection, the Ruhr; formerly in the C. Tautenhahn Collection, Houston, Texas, USA; previously in the Beckmans collection, USA; before 1980. Footnotes The cippus of Horus range in
EGYPTIAN MAGIC CIPPUS WITH HORUS Late Period, 664-332 BC A steatite cippus depicting Horus as a child with sidelock, carved in high relief, standing facing on two overlapping crocodiles, holding snakes and scorpions aloft, with a lion hanging from his right hand and an antelope from his left; wedjat eyes above; the reverse and sides with five rows of protective figures and three rows of hieroglyphs below. 82 grams, 87mm (3 1/2"). Condition Fine condition. Provenance Property of a Connecticut, USA, collector; acquired from a German private collection, the Ruhr; formerly in the C. Tautenhahn Collection, Houston, Texas, USA; previously in the Beckmans collection, USA; before 1980. Footnotes The cippus of Horus range in
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