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

Ritual Object Late Period to Ptolemaic PeriodEgypt

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 36.838. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 36.838
Find spot: Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Period to Ptolemaic Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 26, or later
Date: ca. 664–30 B.C.E.
Date range: 664 BCE – 30 BCE
Materials: ['Faience']
Height: 10.3 cm
Width: 5.7 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Ritual Object (36.838). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/18663

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Description

Object Label: This object is seen in temple reliefs in which the king offers it to goddesses like Hathor, Sakhmet, Mut, or Bastet who are called the Eye of Re. As the Eye of Re, each of these deities symbolized a number of ideas, including the destructive power of the sun god. In return for this offering, the king was assured of protection and the power needed to maintain cosmic order, or Ma'at. He also received the gift of a uraeus for his crown, a symbol of the same forces embodied in the Eye of Re. The cycle of giving, receiving, and giving in return ritually affirmed that the king's possession of royal power was confirmed and renewed. Caption: Ritual Object, ca. 664–30 B.C.E.. Faience, 4 1/16 x 2 1/4 x 1 11/16 in. (10.3 x 5.7 x 4.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 36.838. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.

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Deities Hathor Ra Maat Bastet Mut

Materials Faience

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 36.838 tier-2
BKM-Object 3414 tier-2

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