Horus Falcon

664-330 BCE (Late Period)

0.4 cm 1.2 cm 1.4 cm

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The falcon rather crudely carved of lapis lazuli has the remains of a headdress made of gold foil attached to a rather battered brow. The piece is perforated behind the legs and was probably part a necklace or a collar.

Artifact

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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929 (?), by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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