Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · statue

Figure of Re-Horakhty

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Description

Caption: Figure of Re-Horakhty, 305–200 B.C.E.. Faience, 5 1/16 × 1 3/16 × 1 5/8 in. (12.8 × 3 × 4.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 71.40. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06

Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A statuette depicting a falcon-headed deity, likely Ra-Horakhty.

This artifact is a small statuette representing a falcon-headed god, possibly Ra-Horakhty, due to the presence of the sun disk atop the head. The figure is adorned with a traditional kilt and holds an ankh in its right hand, which is a symbol of life. The style is consistent with ancient Egyptian artistic conventions, with attention to detail evident in the depiction of musculature and attire.

religious New Kingdom good
Deities Ra-Horakhty
Materials faience

Connections

Found at Saqqara
Materials Faience

Cross-references (2)

  • BKM-Accession 71.40 tier-2
  • BKM-Object 3802 tier-2
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