Walters Art Museum (Egyptian) · statue

Horus Falcon

Walters Art Museum (Egyptian), acc. 54.393. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 54.393
Date: mid 7th-late 4th century BCE (Late Period)
Date range: 663 BCE – 332 BCE
Materials: ['bronze']
Repository: Walters Art Museum
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Walters Art Museum (Egyptian), Horus Falcon (54.393). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/220444

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Description

<p>Horus is shown in falcon form, wearing the double crown of Upper and Lower Egypt. Engraved details include the feathers, marks on the legs and feet, and a necklace with a heart amulet. The eyes were inlaid.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/54.393' rel='external'>Horus Falcon</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A dark metal falcon figure posed with one wing raised and a splayed tail, shown in three-quarter view on a rectangular base.

The object is a cast/formed falcon statue consistent with an Egyptian Horus-type bird. The head has a hooked beak and stylized round eye; the neck is thick and transitions into a body covered by incised/scaled feather patterns. The wings and tail are elongated, with the tail extending to the right and the legs standing on a rectangular plinth. A small painted/printed accession number appears on the front edge of the base (readable as “54.393” in the image). No clear hieroglyphic, cartouche, or other textual elements are visible on the body or around the figure; only the accession marking on the base is apparent. The photograph suggests a bronze (ground-truth catalogue material), but the metal color is dark and could be patinated; no microstructural confirmation is possible from the image alone. No deities other than the implied Horus falcon type can be identified with certainty from inscriptions; therefore deities are left as unknown/implicit.

royal unknown good

Deities Horus (implied by catalogue title; not explicitly text/inscription visible)

Materials patinated bronze (suggested; catalogue ground truth)

Visible text "“54.393” (accession/object number on the base; not Egyptian hieroglyphic text)"

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

“54.393” (accession/object number on the base; not Egyptian hieroglyphic text)

Connections

Deities Horus

Cross-references (2)

Walters-AccNum 54.393 tier-2
Walters-id 39272 tier-2

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From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Walters Art Museum (Egyptian).
AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.