Egyptian
Amulet of Re-Horakhty
INV-1345
EgyptianLate Period–Ptolemaic Period (664–30 BCE)
Amulet of Re-Horakhty
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Date
Late Period–Ptolemaic Period (664–30 BCE)
Medium
Faience
Dimensions
7.8 × 1.8 × 2.3 cm (3 1/8 × 3/4 × 7/8 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Charles L. Hutchinson
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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