Re-Horkahty Inlay Plaque

Place CreatedEgypt, Africa

CultureEgyptian

PeriodLate Period

Date722-332 BCE

MediumBronze

Credit LineGift of the Georges Ricard Foundation

Dimensions4 13/16 x 2 11/16 x 1/4 in., 384 g (12.3 x 6.8 x 0.7 cm, 13 9/16 oz.)

Object number2018.010.117

Label TextRe-Horakhty, meaning “Re, who is Horus of the Two Horizons,” was the actual name of the Re of Heliopolis. Re-Horakhty was the god of the rising sun in the east who was worshiped throughout Egypt, but especially in the ancient city of Iunu that the Greeks called Heliopolis. He is depicted as a falcon-headed man crowned with a sun disk and a uraeus. The god holds the ostrich feather of truth and justice in his role as the “the Lord of Ma’at.” He also wears a broad collar, a tripartite wig, and a solar disk. The plaque recesses once held inlaid colored stone or glass.
Exhibition HistoryLife and the Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Art from the Senusret Collection, Michael C. Carlos Museum, February 4 - August 6, 2023
Published ReferencesHotel des Ventes, Marseille, Objets de Fouilles Archeologie (26 Octobre 1972), lot 41.
Melinda K. Hartwig, ed., Life and The Afterlife: Ancient Egyptian Art from the Senusret Collection (Atlanta: Michael C. Carlos Museum, 2023), catalogue entry 32.

ProvenancePurchased by Georges Ricard (1921-2012) from Hotel des Ventes, Marseille, France, October 26, 1972, lot 41. Ex coll. Musée de l'Égypte et le Monde Antique, Collection Sanousrit, Monaco, 1975-1982. Ex coll. Georges Ricard Foundation, Santa Barbara, California.

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