Inside the Egyptian Museum of Cairo lie so many ancient artifacts that you could literally spend weeks here just trying to see everything.
On my recent visit to this museum, I can across this very unique basalt statue that appears to be covered with ancient and intricate… tattoos. This statue is said to represent the ancient priest of Djedhor, who was responsible for the temple of Horus at Athribis, and who was venerated as a holy man.
This statue acted as a source of medicine and is combination of a healing statue and a cippus: a stella showing Horus triumphing over crocodiles, snakes, scorpions, and other wild and dangerous creatures.
The statue is inscribed with healing and protective texts over which liquids would be poured. The liquid would gain the power of the words and then be drunk as a cure. The stela also relates the myth of Isis hiding her son Horus in a papyrus marsh to protect him from the god Seth, emphasizing the protective properties of the statue.
This artifact is dated between 323-317 BC, but may actually be much older.
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