Horus-Shed hunting in his chariot: An unpublished fragment in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, E.GA.3137.1943
This article deals with a fragmentary relief now in the Fitzwilliam Museurn., Cambridge, E.GA.3137.1943, depicting the God Horus-Shed shooting arrows from his chariot, together with the God Bes driving the vehicle. Previously unnoticed, this fragment can be added to the corpus of a rare iconographic...
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| Format: | Print Article |
| Language: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
| Published: |
2023
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| In: |
Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo
Year: 2022, Volume: 78, Pages: 89-99 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Bes
/ Sched, God
/ Relief map
/ Fragment
/ Fitzwilliam Museum
/ Iconography
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| IxTheo Classification: | HH Archaeology |
| Further subjects: | B
Bes
B chariot B "Holy Hunt of Horus-Shed" B Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge B Horus cippus |
| Summary: | This article deals with a fragmentary relief now in the Fitzwilliam Museurn., Cambridge, E.GA.3137.1943, depicting the God Horus-Shed shooting arrows from his chariot, together with the God Bes driving the vehicle. Previously unnoticed, this fragment can be added to the corpus of a rare iconographical motive, the so-called "Holy Hunt of Horus-Shed in his chariot". |
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| Physical Description: | Illustrationen |
| ISSN: | 0342-1279 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Abteilung Kairo, Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts Kairo
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