Walters Art Museum (Egyptian) · statue

Horus Falcon

Accession: 22.64
Dynasty: Ptolemaic Dynasty
Reign: Ptolemy II Philadelphos; Ptolemy IV Philopator
Date: ca. 250-200 BCE (Ptolemaic)
Date range: 262 BCE – 200 BCE
Materials: ['gabbro rock, bronze']
Repository: Walters Art Museum
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Walters Art Museum (Egyptian), Horus Falcon (22.64). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/220738

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Description

<p>The god Horus embodied divine kingship: as god of the sky, he was depicted as a hawk or a man with a hawk's head. The hole on top of the head contains remnants of the base of a bronze crown or sun disk.</p><p>For the latest information about this object, <cite><a href='https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.64' rel='external'>Horus Falcon</a></cite>, visit the Online Collection of the Walters Art Museum.</p>

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Deities Horus

Cross-references (2)

Walters-AccNum 22.64 tier-2
Walters-id 11277 tier-2

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