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The Ophidian Iconography Quest (Mundus Vetus & Mundus Novus, 2004 - present) |
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| Figure NAM-can-009. The apotropaic Eye of Ra as a winged solar disc supported by the sacred scarab beetle (Scarabaeus sacer) of the god of rebirth and sunrise Khepri (the morning aspect of the god Ra) flanked by two addorsed rearing uraeus hooded cobras, each wearing the hedjet (White Crown of Upper Egypt) and carrying the shen (ring of "eternity"); the apotropaic Eyes of Horus supported by two confronted rearing uraeus hooded cobras of the patron goddess of the Lower Egypt Wadjet (the right one is missing), each holding an ankh (ideograph of "life", crux ansata in later Coptic Christian tradition); the protective goddess of the cemetery wearing a vulture headdress and the tall shuti (Two-Feather Crown) decorated with the solar disk flanked by two addorsed rearing uraeus hooded cobras, each wearing the pschent (sekhemti) (Double Crown of Unified Egypt), and welcoming the dead person to the realm; the sun god Ra-Horakhty as a falcon (hawk) wearing a solar disc encircled by the rearing uraeus hooded cobra. |
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| Polychrome paint, plaster, wood | Painting (Coffin's floor- board, painted decoration, detail) |
Unknown | Third Intermediate Period, XXI Dynasty, Amenemope (r. 1001-992 BC), 1000 BC | TBD, Egypt | Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Inventory № ? |
| Source-Image(s): The image(s) is/are from Alexei Alexeev's personal photo archive (The First* Canadian Expedition, 6-8 September 2015, 20-21 May 2017, 1-3 September 2017, 23-24 September 2018). All artefacts will be available for viewing in the Compendium's respective volumes after the completion of the fully integrated iconographic database. Some of the artefacts will be represented by several figures (offering a general view and details). |
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