32-Re-Horkahty Inlay Plaque

Re-Horakhty, meaning “Re, who is Horus of the Two Horizons,” was the actual name of the Re of Heliopolis.¹ 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.

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1. Barta 1984, 171–172. ↩︎