Lot Essay
PUBLISHED:
Exhibition catalogue, Köstlichkeiten aus Kairo!, Antikensmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig und Museum August Kestner Hannover, 2008, p. 124, no. 69.
In the myth of Osiris, after he has been killed and cut into pieces by his brother Seth, his phallus falls in the Nile and is devoured by a fish. Implored by Isis, it releases the phallus so that she can conceive her son Horus. The fish, a symbol of fertility, was named oxyrhynchus because of the site where it was worshipped in Middle Egypt.
Exhibition catalogue, Köstlichkeiten aus Kairo!, Antikensmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig und Museum August Kestner Hannover, 2008, p. 124, no. 69.
In the myth of Osiris, after he has been killed and cut into pieces by his brother Seth, his phallus falls in the Nile and is devoured by a fish. Implored by Isis, it releases the phallus so that she can conceive her son Horus. The fish, a symbol of fertility, was named oxyrhynchus because of the site where it was worshipped in Middle Egypt.