Oxyrhynchus Fish Amulet in the University of Pennsylvania Museum, November 2009

Oxyrhynchus Fish Amulet
Bronze
length, 0.12 meter
Provenance uncertain, possibly Thebes (in Upper Egypt)
Ptolemaic Period, 4th century BC

# 54-33-6

This grey-colored fish (Marymus kannume) was regarded as a form of the goddess Hathor. It figures in the later version of the Osirus legend as the creature which swallowed the phallus of the dismembered king.

Text from the U. Penn. Museum label.