| Period: | | Egypt, New Kingdom, Dynasty 20 |
| Dating: | | 1185 BC–1070 BC |
| Origin: | | Egypt, Lower Egypt, Sebennytus |
| Material: | | Bronze |
| Physical: | | 13.5cm. (5.3 in.) - |
| Catalog: | | MET.MM.00131 |
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This small bronze statuette displays Anhur, god of hunting and war. The position of his left hand suggests that he was portrayed here riding his war cart, holding the reins with one hand, and brandishing a lance with the other.
He wears a long robe and a headdress adorned with four tall straight plumes, now missing (Guirand 1986:16).
Anhur (Onuris)
Anhur, which literally means “he who brought back the far away goddess”, owes his name to the legend of the far away goddess: Different versions of the legend feature either Goddess Mehit, Hupes, Sakhmet, Tefnut, or Hathor, but the plot is always the same. The goddess got into an argument with the sun-god Ra, and left Egypt for far away lands. Eventually, Ra sent a messenger to cajole and convince her to come back. The messenger succeeded, and thus earned his name of Anhur. (In the version of the story involving the lioness-goddess Sakhmet, as the messenger calms her anger and soothes her feelings, she turns into the cat-goddess Bastet.)
Rather than a single god, Anhur may be a more general name covering whatever god was thought to have been Ra’s messenger: Shu (god of the air, who supports the sky), or the local god of the city of This near Abydos.
Anhur of Thisis a warrior god portrayed as a man wearing a crown of feathers and brandishing a spear in his upheld right hand. A very ancient local god of upper Egypt, Anhur became very popular during the New Kingdom as the savior of simple folk, who would invoke him against enemies and noxious animals.
By Dynasty 30, the cult of Anhur-Shu was centered in Lower Egypt, in the delta city of Sebennytos, where a temple was erected during the reign of Nectabo II.
Bibliography (for this item)
Guirand, Felix
1968 New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology. Crescent Books, New York, NY.
Ions, Veronica
1969 Mythologie Egyptienne (Translation of the 1968 edition by the Hamlyn Publishing Group). ODEGE, Paris, France.
Bibliography (on Anhur (Onuris))
Hart, George
1986 A Dictionary of Egyptian Gods and Goddesses. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London, United Kingdom. (148)
Ions, Veronica
1969 Mythologie Egyptienne (Translation of the 1968 edition by the Hamlyn Publishing Group). ODEGE, Paris, France. (48)
Vandier, Jacques
1944 La Religion Egyptienne. Presses Universitaires de France, Paris, France. (62)
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