A Bronze Figure of the Horus Falcon , 26th/30th Dynasty, 664-342 B.C.

Estimate

2,500 - 3,500 USD

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Description

A Bronze Figure of the Horus Falcon
Height 8 1/2 in. 21.6 cm.

standing on a trapezoidal base with wings folded over the tail and wearing the crown of Upper and Lower Egypt with uraeus and fragmentary spiral, the rectangular aperture in front probably for insertion of a mummy.

Provenance

Niagara Falls Museum, Ontario, acquired in the early 1860s

Literature

Peter Lacovara and Betsy Teasley Trope, The Realm of Osiris. Mummies, Coffins, and Ancient Egyptian Funerary Art in the Michael C. Carlos Museum, Atlanta, 2001, p. 67, no. 61, illus.