Statue of a Crocodile with the Head of a Falcon

ca. 380-250 BCE (Late Period (30th dynasty)-early Ptolemaic Period)

8.8 cm 8.3 cm 26.8 cm

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This may represent the god Horus the Elder, who is occasionally shown with a falcon head and a crocodile body, or a combination of the crocodile-god Sobek with the sun-god Re. A crowning element once completed the work.

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Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1924, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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