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Amulet of Re-Horakhty
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period (664–30 BCE)
- Medium
- Faience
- Classification
- Costume and Accessories
- Dimensions
- 7.8 × 1.8 × 2.3 cm (3 1/8 × 3/4 × 7/8 in.)
- Culture
- Egypt
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Arts of Africa
- Credit line
- Gift of Charles L. Hutchinson
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
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.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
