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Pectoral with Solar Boat

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Description

<p>This steatite plaque was used as a small pectoral. The front is carved in relief depicting the solar boat with two standing baboons in worshipping gesture flanking the winged scarab as well as the moon crescent and disk combination. Incised on the back is a scene in which the god Re-Harakhte is seated as falcon-headed deity and as a solar falcon on the left and including the center; opposite of them is Atum, the creator god.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/42.378' rel='external'>Pectoral with Solar Boat</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Stone pectoral showing a central, solar-boat-like or winged sacred image flanked by seated figures and attendants in low relief.

The object is a rectangular stone plaque/pectoral in low relief with a central motif dominated by a disk with a raised, boat-like form beneath or within it. Flanking areas show figures in profile standing or seated, including what appear to be attendants wearing striped/feathered or pleated garments and holding staffs or oars-like shapes. A broad border line runs along the bottom, and smaller horizontal/diagonal decorative bands appear across parts of the scene. No clear modern inscriptions or Greek/Coptic/Arabic text are visible; any hieroglyphic signs are not sharply legible in the available image.

religious unclear (likely Egyptian religious/royal iconography; exact period not determinable from image alone) fragmentary
Deities unknown
Materials stone/steatite (catalogue ground truth)

Connections

Deities RaRa-HorakhtyAtum

Cross-references (2)

  • Walters-AccNum 42.378 tier-2
  • Walters-id 5288 tier-2
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  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Walters Art Museum (Egyptian).
  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
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  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.