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A work made of faience.

Amulet of Re-Horakhty

Late Period–Ptolemaic Period (664–30 BCE)

Egyptian

Egypt

Re-Horakhty was a combination of the solar gods Re and Horus of the Horizon, both of whom promised eternal life after death by equating a person’s rebirth with the rising of the sun each dawn.

Faience

Arts of Africa