Horus_as_falcon_god_with_Egyptian_crown_from_the_27th_dynasty_(05).jpg


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English: object type: statue of a deity

- description: an Egyptian god, probably Horus, in the form of a falcon wearing the combined crown of Upper and Lower Egypt with the Egyptian cobra on the front - production place: Egypt - period / date: late period, 27. dynasty (Persian rule), ca. 500 BC - material: silver, electrum - height: 26,9 cm - findspot: Egypt - museum / inventory number: München, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, loan from the Bayerische Landesbank - bibliography: Sylvia Schoske, Dietrich Wildung, Das Münchner Buch der Ägyptischen Kunst, München 2013, 143-144, fig. 120

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15 December 2015