Hori (High Priest of Osiris) explained

Hori
Style:	High Priest of Osiris
Predecessor:	Wenennefer
Successor:	Yuyu
Dynasty:	19th Dynasty
Pharaoh:	Ramesses II
Father:	Wenennefer
Mother:	Tiy

Hori was an ancient Egyptian High Priest of Osiris at Abydos, during the reign of pharaohs Ramesses II.

Biography

Hori came from a long line of High Priests of Osiris, He was the fifth holder of the High Priesthood in his family.^[1] He was the son of the High Priest of Osiris Wenennefer and the Chantress of Osiris Tiy.^[1]

Hori is known from several sources:^[2]

• A kneeling statue with a Horus figure, now in Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg (AEIN 1492 - A.66)
• A kneeling statue with an Osiris figure, now in the University of Chicago Oriental Institute (OIC 7204)
• A limestone stela from Abydos from Mariette's excavations. Hori is shown adoring Osiris and Isis.
• A relief fragment now in Cairo.
• A small stela now in Cairo.
• His painted sarcophagus made between 1186-1070 B.C. is exhibited in Pápa, Hungary, since 1884.^[3]

Notes and References

1. Kitchen, Kenneth A., Pharaoh Triumphant: The Life and Times of Ramesses II, King of Egypt, Aris & Phillips. 1983, pp171
2. Kitchen, Kenneth A. Ramesside Inscriptions, Translated and Annotated Translations: Ramesses II, His Contemporaries (Ramesside Inscriptions Translations) (Volume III) Wiley-Blackwell. 2001, pg 328-329,
3. https://www.pannoniareformata.hu/muzeum/allando-kiallitasok/Hori-titkai-5 “Hori titkai” (Secrets of Hori) permanent exhibition (Hungarian text)