"HORUS AND SET RECONCILED" Brussels Museum of Art and History via GEM
Engraved faience, Not before NEW KINGDOM, not after 19TH DYNASTY?
From the GEM site: "The blue enamel seal takes the form of a cartouche representing Seth and Horus holding hands. The two gods with the heads of falcons are wearing the double crown of Upper Egypt and Lower Egypt. They are surmounting the hieroglyphic sign signifying gold. The handle of the seal is the transposition, in faience, of vegetable stalks tied together. The material indicates that it is probably an amulet..."
the back side of this amulet...
The British Museum has a similar amulet described by Carol Andrews in _Amulets of Ancient Egypt_, page 54: "Turquoise-blue glazed-composition bundle-backed seal. The underside shows Seth and a falcon-headed god wearing a disc. L 5.3cm, NK." The museum website photo, from which my crop derives, only shows one side.
Editor Simpson explains:
"The sole complete copy of this text is preserved on Papyrus St. Petersburg 1116B and dates from the Eighteenth Dynasty, although smaller portions have been found on ostraca and two writing tablets. The original text was written purportedly during the reign or after the death of Amenemhet I of the Twelfth Dynasty."
I found another amulet which appears to have the 'reconciling' theme, this in W.M. Flinders Petrie's _HYKSOS AND
ISRAELITE CITIES_:
From plate XXXVII - Saft (Goshen) and Gheyta, Scarabs, Reused in the Cemetary of Gheyta
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