Juvenile God with a Sun Disk

Description Each morning, the sun was reborn into the world, often in the form of a young child like the one represented in this pendant. Here, the sun child wears an elaborate necklace and sun disk with a protective uraeus snake on his head. On the right side of his head, he wears a braided ponytail (part of which is now missing). This "side-lock of youth" was a common hairstyle for children in ancient Egypt.

Conservation

Examined and cleaned in preparation for exhibition.

Examined and cleaned in preparation for exhibition.

Date	Description	Narrative
12/31/1969	Examination	Examined, cleaned
12/31/1969	Treatment	Examined, cleaned
4/30/1957	Treatment	cleaned

Exhibitions

• Egypt’s Mysterious Book of the Faiyum. The Walters Art Museum, Baltimore. 2013-2014.
• Die Entstehung der Welt. Ägyptens letzter Schöpfungsmythos (The Origin of the World. Egypt’s Last Creation Myth). Roemer- und Pelizaeus- Museum, Hildesheim; Kunsthalle Leoben, Leoben. 2014-2015.

Provenance Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [as from the Pyramids]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1925 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1925