
Francesca Hickin
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Provenance:
Resandro collection, Europe, primarily formed late 1960s-1997 (R-612 (HA 13)).
Published:
I. Grimm-Stadelmann (ed.), Aesthetic Glimpses, Masterpieces of Ancient Egyptian Art, The Resandro Collection, Munich, 2012, p.194, no. R-612.
Nude Horus is depicted as a child and is shown being protected by, and holding the hands of, his mother Isis and aunt Nephthys. This plaque also represents part of the Osiride myth of the murder and resurrection of Osiris and the birth and vengeance of his son Horus, both of them nurtured and protected by Isis and Nephthys. For the type, see the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, acc. no. 26.7.890.