Set Sightings via the Global Egyptian Museum
July 21, 2007


"HORUS AND SET RECONCILED" Brussels Museum of Art and History via GEM
Engraved faience, Not before NEW KINGDOM, not after 19TH DYNASTY?

From the GEM site:
"The blue enamel seal takes the form of a cartouche representing Seth and Horus holding hands. The two gods with the heads of falcons are wearing the double crown of Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt. They are surmounting the hieroglyphic sign signifying gold. The handle of the seal is the transposition, in faience, of vegetable stalks tied together. The material indicates that it is probably an amulet..."


the back side of this amulet...

You can see where the necklace chain or rope would go through. I differ from the museum description, for I think the figure on the left looks to be more falcon headed and the figure on the right to have more of the Set animal snout.

Set on the back side of a hippo amulet ...

Faience, pressed into a mold, New Kingdom
State Hermitage Museum, Petersburg, via GEM

And I found another ivory knife, similar to the one at the Cairo museum:


Ivory Magical Knife, Middle Kingdom Brussels Museum of Art and History via GEM


reverse of that knife...

As it says in GEM website, the entities depicted "would magically turn their aggressive instincts against those who would do evil to the mother and child. Both sides of this piece of ivory are decorated in a similar fashion..." Among the various entities are "a serpent, a crocodile, a brazier, the god Aha-the fighter-, a hippopotamus, a Seth animal, another hippo, a knife, the frog-goddess Heqet and a winged griffin."

And of course, the Global Egyptian Museum website also has a page on my favorite statue, Horus and Set with Ramesses the Third:

Egyptian Museum, Cairo
Granite, height 195cm, width 72cm, found at Medinet Habu

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