Art, Symbol & Imagination
Funeral Boat and the Four Sons of Horus
A curved model boat carries figures around a central reclining body beneath a raised framework. Below it stand four canopic jars with differing heads. The numbered caption identifies the boat figures with Isis and Nephthys and the jars with the four sons of Horus. W. A. Mansell and Co. receive the photographic credit. The shared plate brings funerary transport and the protection of the body into one comparative arrangement.
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W. A. Mansell and Co. (photographic credit). "Funeral Boat and the Four Sons of Horus" [editorial title]. In Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt, Lewis Spence. September 1923 Harrap reprint; first published August 1913, 1923, George G. Harrap & Co. Ltd.. Source scan leaf 53. Lumitheca. /gallery/image/egypt-documentary-plate-53
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Editorial title and description. Source details from the Library catalogue.
Full source scan and printed caption actually inspected. Complete original plate and caption retained; only crop and stated orientation correction applied to checksum-verified private R2 derivative.
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W. A. Mansell and Co. (photographic credit). Funeral Boat and the Four Sons of Horus. Myths and Legends of Ancient Egypt. Scan leaf 53. Lumitheca. https://lumitheca.com/gallery/image/egypt-documentary-plate-53