Horus of Buto
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Egyptian Art under the Greeks and Romans, 332 B.C. to A.D. 330, Museum of Art and Archaeology, University of Missouri-Columbia, September 26-November 15, 1987.
The round mane with delicately radiating hairs frames and draws attention to his face. It also covers a potentially awkward transition from a human neck to a lion's head. The upright posture suggests power and authority.
This lion-headed Horus, son of Wadjet, had his cult center in Buto, northern Egypt; his half-brother, Horus the Sky God, son of Isis, was more widely worshiped.
Found at Denderah, Egypt, 1880s [1];
Dr. Joseph Eddé, Alexandria, Egypt;
With Jacob Hirsch, New York, by 1945;
Purchased from Hirsch by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1945.
NOTES:
[1] According to Dr. Jacob Hirsch, NAMA curatorial files.
The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 15.
Pictorial History of the World (Year Pictorial Publications, 1956), 43, (repro.).
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 114.
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 9, fig. 19.
