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About Amulets Cat. 71 Amulet of Bes, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period Cat. 72 Amulet of Imsety, One of the Four Sons of Horus, Ptolemaic Period Cat. 73 Nehebkau Amulet, Late Period Cat. 74 Nephthys, Horus the Child, and Isis Amulet, Late Period Cat. 75 Amulet of Mut and Khonsu, Third Intermediate Period Cat. 76 Amulet of Pataikos, Third Intermediate Period Cat. 77 Amulet of Re-Horakhty, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period Cats. 78–79 Sekhmet Amulets, Third Intermediate Period Cats. 80–81 Taweret Amulets, Third Intermediate Period–Late Period and New Kingdom Cats. 82–83 Thoth Amulets, Ptolemaic Period Cat. 84 Ram Amulet, Late Period–Ptolemaic Period

Cat. 77

Amulet of Re-Horakhty


Late Period–Ptolemaic Period (664–30 BCE)

Ancient Egyptian

Faience; 7.8 × 1.8 × 2.3 cm (3 1/8 × 3/4 × 7/8 in.)

The Art Institute of Chicago, purchased with funds provided by Charles L. Hutchinson, 1894.1946

This green-glazed, faience amulet is a tiny version of the copper alloy statuette of Re-Horakhty (cat. 24), mimicking almost all of the features of the larger example—the stance (arms to the side, left foot advanced), the idealized physique, the lines of the broad collar between the lappets of the wig, and even the clenched fists. The disk-with-uraeus that is missing from the statuette is preserved in this amulet. But there are also differences between the two representations, especially in the modeling of the head. Here, the falcon has a more pronounced ridge on his forehead and lacks the human ears of the statuette. The amulet depicts the god dressed in a wrapped, pleated kilt, while the statuette shows him wearing the shendyt kilt that is usually associated with gods and the king.[1] The most significant difference is the addition of the back pillar that marks the amulet as being a tiny statue, whereas the statuette, which lacks this detail, represents the deity himself. The back pillar is pierced to allow the amulet to be strung or attached to mummy wrappings.1

Additional Views of Cat. 77

Side of cat. 77.

Back of cat. 77.

For more on amulets, see About Amulets.2

Provenance

The Art Institute of Chicago, acquired in 1894.3

Publication History

Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of the Egyptian Collection (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1923), 130.
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Notes

  1. See cat. 24, n. 2, on the shendyt kilt also worn by officials.

How to Cite

Emily Teeter, “Cat. 77 Amulet of Re-Horakhty,” in Ancient Egyptian Art at the Art Institute of Chicago by Emily Teeter and Ashley F. Arico, ed. Ashley F. Arico (Art Institute of Chicago, 2025), https://doi.org/10.53269/9780865593213/83.

© 2025 by The Art Institute of Chicago. This work is licensed under a CC BY-NC 4.0 license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.

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