Symbol of Horus from Oedipus Aegyptiacus

The image is a circular emblem featuring a figure in profile standing on a small plinth. The figure wears a close-fitting tunic covered in a cross-hatched, scale-like pattern and has an object shaped like a downward-pointing triangle on a curved neckpiece emerging from their back. They hold a vertical staff capped with the head of an ibis and adorned with a cross-bar and a hooked implement. The entire emblem is enclosed in a thick circular border against a background of faint, partial text.

This image is part of Athanasius Kircher's 'Oedipus Aegyptiacus', an influential but largely erroneous 17th-century attempt to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs as a universal, divinely encoded symbolic language. It reflects the period's syncretic fascination with Hermeticism, Egyptology, and the search for 'prisca theologia'.