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With a red-ochre coat covered with hewagons and circles of beads, the falcon sits on a yellow-ochre base. It wears a necklace of dark blue/green and ochre beads and reels. Possibly representing a cult image of a falcon god to be placed on the lid of a coffin, the bird is crisply painted in ochre, red and blue-black with its white face carefully highlighted in black with its all-seeing eye.

h. 13 x w. 21.5 cm

Third Intermediate Period, c. 800-600 BC

Wood

Provenance

Private Collection UK, acquired early 19th century
Acquired at Rupert Wace, 28th June 2011

Publications

B. Fay, Cf. a very close example in 'The Egyptian Museum, Berlin', Berlin, 1984, pp. 154-155, fig. 77
Rupert Wace Ancient Art, 2007, no. 7
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, pp. 22 and 86
C. Dauphin, Les animaux dans le monde antique. Le bestiaire Levett, Serie Collection Levett 2, France, 2016, p. 20, fig. 17 and p. 77

Exhibitions

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011

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Egyptian Polychrome Falcon

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