Falcon

664-525 BCE (Late Period)

1.9 cm 2.1 cm 0.6 cm

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This falcon is a carved quartz with a smoky hue with interior faults which display interference colors (resembling iridescence of glass) and has characteristics of rainbow or iris quartz. The lack of a perforation as well as the rough surface, suggest that the piece was never...

Sculpture

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25777
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sculpture
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normalized
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Maurice Nahman, Cairo [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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5
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