Horus Spearing the Enemy

Description Carved in low relief, Horus is depicted with a hawk's head and double-crown, spearing a man who is also attacked by a lion.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
12/31/1969	Treatment	examined for loan; inpainted; surface cleaned
9/20/1957	Treatment	cleaned
9/16/1960	Treatment	cleaned
7/24/1972	Treatment	cleaned; other; coated
9/03/1974	Treatment	cleaned; coated
7/31/1998	Examination	survey
4/01/2004	Loan Consideration	examined for loan

Exhibitions

• Ägypten Griechenland Rom: Abwehr und Berührung. Staedtische Galerie Liebieghaus, Frankfurt am Main. 2005-2006.
• Die Entstehung der Welt. Ägyptens letzter Schöpfungsmythos (The Origin of the World. Egypt’s Last Creation Myth). Roemer- und Pelizaeus- Museum, Hildesheim; Kunsthalle Leoben, Leoben. 2014-2015.

Provenance Rev. William MacGregor Collection Sale, Sotheby's, London, 1922, no. 1566; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1923