Amuletic Figure of Hapy, Son of Horus

ca. 750-650 BCE (Third Intermediate Period)

2.5 cm 9 cm 0.7 cm

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This faience amulet represents Hapy, the baboon-headed son of Horus. There are four sons of Horus and this amulet is part of a set of four (Walters 48.1638-1641). The sons of Horus protected he vital organs of the body after mummification. The image is that of a baboon-heade...

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Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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