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Source Description
This statuette, likely dedicated to the falcon-god Horus, is missing its crown and eye inlays. The structure of the feathers is carefully incised. The base is inscribed with texts of adoration and prayer. Examination through the hole in the head revealed bird bones that had been wrapped in linen and placed inside through a trap door between the statuette's legs. A neutron-induced radiograph also reveals the presence of bones inside the reliquary.
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Document identity
localId
3683
label
Falcon Reliquary
core
obj
dtoType
object
citationUrl
pageCount
7
Source metadata
id
3683
sourceUrl
contentType
object
stage
normalized
title
Falcon Reliquary
description
This statuette, likely dedicated to the falcon-god Horus, is missing its crown and eye inlays. The structure of the feathers is carefully incised. The base is inscribed with texts of adoration and prayer. Examination through the hole in the head revealed bird bones that had been wrapped in linen and placed inside through a trap door between the statuette's legs. A neutron-induced radiograph also reveals the presence of bones inside the reliquary.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
ca. 600-350 BCE (Late Period)
citationUrl
rightsUri
CC0
language
en
genreSpecific
Metal
statuettes (statues)
reliquary figures
imageCount
7
pageCount
7
source
import
dimensionsRaw
H: 8 15/16 in. (22.7 cm)
Source extras
cul
Egyptian
inscriptions
[Translation] To be recited: Osiris-Wennefer
the Great God
Lord of Heaven
Royal Youth
wearing the white crown
who went forth from the body of the two uraeus serpents
the uraeus is upon the great forehead of the one who has dwelt in the body of Nut. To be recited: Osiris who rules in the west
may he give life
health
long lifetime
and a long and good age to Iwer-hotep-her-nebef
son of Ren-ef-hesy.
dynasty
26th-30th Dynasty
med
bronze, bird bones, linen
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6182
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EGY
exhibition_ids
721
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