Art Institute of Chicago
Amulet of Re-Horakhty
Egyptian
- Date
- Late Period–Ptolemaic Period (664–30 BCE)
- Medium
- Faience
- Culture
- Egypt
- Department
- Arts of Africa
- Institution
- Art Institute of Chicago
Re-Horakhty was a combination of the solar gods Re and Horus of the Horizon, both of whom promised eternal life after death by equating a person’s rebirth with the rising of the sun each dawn.
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- Object type
- AAT300209261
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