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Inlay Depicting the Squatting God Re (Metropolitan Museum of Art, 26.7.1004)

Ancient Egyptian Art

A small faience inlay, about 8.2 by 4.2 centimeters, showing the falcon-headed sun god Ra in a squatting posture and crowned with a sun disk, dated to the Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, 4th century BCE, and likely originating from Hermopolis in Middle Egypt. Held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art under accession 26.7.1004, acquired in 1926 through the Edward S. Harkness Gift. The piece combines the falcon and the solar disk, the two central emblems of Ra's iconography, into a single decorative fitting, the kind of small inlaid piece produced in quantity for shrine and coffin decoration.

Facts
Physical Form
Medium
Faience inlay, Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, 4th century BCE 1
Dimensions
Approximately 8.2 by 4.2 centimeters. 1
Classification
Object Type
Amulet or Small Carved Object 1
Medium (class)
Ceramic 1
Connections

Depicts

Ra, Deities

The inlay's sole subject, a canonical falcon-headed and sun disk depiction of Ra, held by the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Source Inlay Depicting the Squatting God Re, File Record (Wikimedia Commons, Met 26.7.1004)
Additional Source Ra (Wikipedia)

Originated In

Egypt, Regions
Source Inlay Depicting the Squatting God Re, File Record (Wikimedia Commons, Met 26.7.1004)
Sources
1. Inlay Depicting the Squatting God Re, File Record (Wikimedia Commons, Met 26.7.1004)
Wikimedia Commons
  • catalogue record, medium/object-type description
    A small faience inlay, about 8.
  • Originated In: Egypt, Opening sentences of the entity description
    A small faience inlay, about 8.2 by 4.2 centimeters, showing the falcon-headed sun god Ra in a squatting posture and crowned with a sun disk, dated to the Late Period to Ptolemaic Period, 4th century BCE, and likely originating from Hermopolis in Middle Egypt.
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Solar deity (Wikipedia)
In Group: Egyptian Solar Deities, the Metropolitan Museum of Art record identifies the inlay's subject as the squatting god Re, a solar deityView the Source
Ra (Wikipedia)
WikipediaDepicts: Ra
Quote, Depicts: Ra
Inlay depicting the squatting god Re.
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