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Relief with Horus as Falcon

Place of OriginEgypt
DateLate Period, Dynasty 21, 1085-332 BCE or Ptolemaic Dynasty, 305-30 BCE
DimensionsH: 48 in. (121.9 cm); W: 7 in. (17.8 cm); Depth: 6 in. (15.2 cm)
MediumQuartzite or siliceous sandstone.
ClassificationSculpture
Credit LineGift of Mr. and Mrs. Ward M. Canaday
Object number
1938.21
Not on View
DescriptionDecorated on one side with a bird with outstretched wings; hieroglyphs; and jackal in bas-relief.
Published References

Peck, William H., Sandra E. Knudsen and Paula Reich, Egypt in Toledo: The Ancient Egyptian Collection at the Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Toledo Museum of Art, 2011, p. 91, repr. (col.).

Exhibition History

Toledo Museum of Art, Hands On Egypt, Sept. 18, 1998 - Aug. 31, 2000.

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