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. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.71.40_wwg8.jpg)
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. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.71.40_NegA_print_bw.jpg)
Figure of Re-Horakhty
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
On View: 19th Dynasty to Roman Period, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor
MEDIUM
Faience
DATES
305–200 B.C.E.
PERIOD
Ptolemaic Period
DIMENSIONS
5 1/16 × 1 3/16 × 1 5/8 in. (12.8 × 3 × 4.1 cm) (show scale)
COLLECTIONS
Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
ACCESSION NUMBER
71.40
CREDIT LINE
Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
Greenish blue glazed faience deity striding upon a rectangular base. The figure wears a sndy.t kilt, broad collar and tripartite wig. Atop his head are a sun-disk and uraeus. He holds an ‘nh in his right hand. With his left hand he holds a w;s scepter to his chest. A back pillar with ribbed eyelet rises almost to the top of the sun-disk.
Condition: Once broken in two across lower legs but now mended; section of lower right leg once broken off but now mended. Incrustation in some hollows, especially on rear of disk by back pillar. Numerous small pits in glaze; small cracks over right eye. Glaze darkened in spots.
EXHIBITIONS
MUSEUM LOCATION
This item is on view on the 19th Dynasty to Roman Period, Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Gallery, 3rd Floor
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. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.71.40_wwg8.jpg)
IMAGE
installation, West Wing gallery 8 installation, CUR.71.40_wwg8.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2006
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