# Amulet of Re-Horakhty

- By: Ancient Egyptian
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Gift of Charles L. Hutchinson
- Museum: [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu/artworks/134573)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://www.artic.edu/iiif/2/dd45d8ab-4538-0a8c-f4c7-8795777e110d/full/843,/0/default.jpg
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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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