God Horus Protecting King Nectanebo II, ca. 360-343 BCE; Metropolitan Museum of Art
Medium: Meta-Greywacke
Dimensions: H. 72 cm (28 3/8 in.); W. 20 cm (7 7/8 in.); D. 46.5 cm (18 5/16 in.)
The Egyptian god Horus was most often depicted as a falcon or as a man with a falcon head. Horus was one of the most important of the Egyptian gods, and actually, there were not one but two gods identified as "Horus": Horus the Elder, the last of the five original gods, and Horus the Younger, the son of Osiris and Isis. Horus was a sky god but also a god of war and the pharaoh. "Horus the Younger...was a powerful sky god associated with the sun, primarily, but also the moon. He was the protector of the royalty of Egypt, avenger of wrongs, defender of order, uniter of the two land" (World History Encyclopedia)
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