Sculptor's Model of a Vulture Hieroglyph

ca. 300-160 BCE (Ptolemaic)

16 cm 14 cm 2.3 cm

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Sculptor's models were used in the workshops of craftsmen for training and demonstration purposes. This two-dimensional model, executed in raised relief, displays a vulture. The image represents the hieroglyphic script sign "aleph" (which does not exist in the English alphabet...

Sculpture

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S. Pozzi sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 25-27 June 1919, lot. 297; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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