AN EGYPTIAN GREEN STONE CIPPUS
AN EGYPTIAN GREEN STONE CIPPUS

LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN GREEN STONE CIPPUS
LATE PERIOD, CIRCA 664-332 B.C.
Sculpted in high relief, with the head of Bes emerging from the top protecting the nude Horus child standing below, holding an antelope in his right hand and a lion and snakes in his left, standing on a pair of crocodiles with their heads turned back, behind his head an incised processional scene, another on the reverse, with inscribed hieroglyphs on the reverse and both sides with spells for protection against noxious beasts and poisonous reptiles
4 ½ in. (11.5 cm.) high
来源
Nicholas G. Brimo, Paris.
with Brummer Gallery, Paris and New York, acquired from the above in 1937 (item no. P14010 in The Brummer Gallery Records, The Metropolitan Museum, New York).
E. and R. Bloch collection.
with Axel G. Weber, Cologne, 1994.

拍品专文

PUBLISHED:
Grimm-Stadelmann, 2012, p. 169, no. R-512.

Carol Andrews notes that of all apotropaic amulets, cippi were viewed as the “most protective and prophylactic” against warding off noxious creatures (Andrews, 1984, p. 39). The common form, as evident in the present example, features a standing figure of Horus the child subduing various threatening beasts (quite often serpents), with the head of Bes above him. Protective magical spells are inscribed on the back. Functionally, cippi were set up in temple processions where a priest would pour water over them. The water was then meant to absorb the magical protection of the spells written on the amulet, and then drunk by those wishing to gain protection against the creatures in question, or those already suffering from life-threatening dangers such as a snake bite (op. cit. p. 40).

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