Hor-chered

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Hor-chered in hieroglyphics
Gr.-Roman. time
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Hor-chered
Ḥr-ẖrd
Horus, the child
Statuette d'Horus enfant, basse époque.JPG
Horus as a child with a finger on his mouth ( statuette ).

Hor-Chered (also Har-chered ) is an ancient Egyptian deity, a name given to Horus as a child. It appeared in the Greco-Roman period as a subsidiary form of Harpocrates . Hor-chered is documented, for example, on a wooden panel in saqqara , but otherwise less often.

See also

literature

  • Christian Leitz u. a .: LGG , Vol. 5: Ḥ - ḫ - Series of publications: Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta; 114 - . Peeters, Leuven 2002, ISBN 90-429-1150-6 , p. 281.
  • Sandra Sandri: Har-Pa-Chered (Harpokrates): The genesis of an Egyptian god child (Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta 151) . Peeters, Leuven 2006, ISBN 90-429-1761-X .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Geoffrey Thorndike Martin: The tomb of Hetepka and other Reliefs and Inscriptions from the sacred animal Necropolis North Saqqâra 1964-1973 . Egypt Exploration Society, London 1979, ISBN 0-85698-074-9 , wooden panel Kairo JE 91103, p. 87.
  2. Dominique Mallet: Le Kasr el-Agoûz (series: Mémoires pp les membres de l'Institut franç. D'archéol. Orient. Du Caire T. 11) . Institut française d'Archéolog. orient., Le Kaire 1909, p. 47.