Statuette of a Falcon (Primary Title)
Coffin for a mummified falcon (Former Title)

Unknown (Artist)

664–525 BC
Egyptian
copper alloy
Place Made,Egypt
Overall: 7 5/8 × 3 1/2 × 7 3/4 in. (19.368 × 8.89 × 19.685 cm)
51.19.8
This statuette may have been a coffin for the mummy of a real falcon, the animal sacred to Horus.
Dynasty 26 or later
Late (Saite) Period
Adolph D. and Wilkins C. Williams Fund
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