As part of a collaboration between the Hunt museum and the masters students in Interactive Media, department of computer science, University of Limerick. The Pocket Museum exhibition will be on display form the 1st May – 31st May. These pocket museums and the designed artifacts they hold have been inspired by pieces on display in the Hunt museum.
Title:
Symbolic mythos of ancient Egypt
Statement:
The sky god Horus was usually depicted as a falcon, it’s been said that the sun was his right eye and the moon his left, and that they traversed the sky when he flew across it. Horus had been told by his mother Isis, to protect the people of Egypt from Set, the god of the desert who had killed Horus’s father, Osiris.
During battle, Set gouged out Horus’s eye. This eye was then partially restored by the god Thoth, who was often depicted as a man with the head of a baboon. Horus offered his recovered eye to his father, in the hopes of restoring his life. Hence, the eye of Horus has often been used to symbolise sacrifice, healing, restoration and protection.
The items in this pocket museum have been inspired by the Hunt museum objects MG 006, MG 005 and MG 139/10.
Sean Fogarty 