Statuette of Horus, lord of Sekhem (Letopolis)

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

As the powerful creator of the known world, the sun god was often merged with other deities. The falcon-headed Horus, king of the gods and a sky deity in his own right, was frequently conflated with Re—as in this image, where the presence of a solar disk acknowledges their joining.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.

Metropolitan Museum of Art