sun disc

noun

1. a disc symbolizing the sun, esp one flanked by two serpents and the extended wings of a vulture, used as a religious figure in ancient Egypt

Example Sentences

She was the Great Royal Wife of Akhenaten, an Egyptian Pharaoh and they were also known for a religious revolution as they only worshipped one god, which was Aten the sun disc god.

From Fox News

Those Ancient Egyptians I liked so much as a child sometimes painted a sun disc guarded, before and behind, by a lion.

From BBC

The bodies date from around 3,300 years ago, when the Pharaoh Akhenaten renounced Egypt's traditional polytheistic religion and moved his capital to remote Amarna, to worship just one god: the Sun disc Aten.

From Nature

In “Invocation” of August 1965, a red hot sun disc shot through with yellow is framed in a swirl of black.

From New York Times

An enormous sun disc with a blurry red halo hovers over a vast indeterminate expanse of black and red land.

From New York Times