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Fragment of Pectoral Late PeriodEgypt

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 68.18. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 68.18
Find spot: Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 26 to Dynasty 31
Date: ca. 664–332 B.C.E.
Date range: 664 BCE – 332 BCE
Materials: ['Steatite', 'glaze']
Height: 3.9 cm
Width: 9.6 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Fragment of Pectoral (68.18). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/18525

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Object Label: Egyptian religion frequently adopted a mulitplicity of approaches to explain or represent different aspects of a single divine concept. The sun god, for instance, had a morning aspect called Khepri, commonly depicted as a scarab beetle pushing the sun disk across the heavens much as a beetle rolls a ball of dung across the desert floor. The noontime sun was Re or Re-Horakhty, often shown as a falcon or falcon-headed man with a sun disk on his head. Atum, who personified the sun that set over the western horizon to travel through the underworld, could be represented in many guises, including those of a human-headed cobra, a ram-headed man, or a weary old man. Caption: Fragment of Pectoral, ca. 664–332 B.C.E.. Steatite, glaze, 1 9/16 x 3 3/4 x 5/16 in. (3.9 x 9.6 x 0.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 68.18. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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Deities Ra Ra-Horakhty Atum Khepri

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BKM-Accession 68.18 tier-2
BKM-Object 3768 tier-2

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