About This Artwork

Egyptian

Statuette of Re Horakhty, Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 21-25 (c.  1069-656 B.C.)

Bronze with gilt
25 x 8.3 x 10.5 cm (9 7/8 x 3 1/4 x 4 1/8 in.)
Inscription in gold on belt: Re Horakhty, chief of the gods
Gift of Henry H. Getty, Charles L. Hutchinson, and Robert H. Fleming, 1894.261

This bronze figure of a man with a hawk head represents Re Horakhty, an Egyptian god of the sun.

Exhibition, Publication and Ownership Histories

Exhibition History

SO41204 - to Oriental Institute of Chicago; returned to Art Institute, RofO 36975, 1/14/1993.

The Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Rubloff 154A, 1994 - present.

Publication History

Alexander, Karen. The Galleries of Ancient Art: A Guide to the Collection, Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, unpaged.

Roeder, Gunther. Agyptische Bronzefiguren. Berlin: Staatliche Museen zu (Berlin, 1956), p. 80 (#114a), Tafel 74a.

Allen, Thomas George, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection. (Chicago 1923), pp. 101-02 (ill.).

Teeter, Emily, Egyptian Art, Museum Studies: Ancient Art at The Art Institute of Chicago 20, no. 1 (1994), pp. 24 (ill.), 26, no. 8.

"CLEOPATRA; THE ANCIENT WORLD," Computer program, 1997, The Art Institute of Chicago.