Statue_of_an_Egyptian_god_with_the_head_of_a_falcon_found_at_Rome_02.jpg
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object type: statue of a god
- description: god standing, left leg advanced, with the head of a falcon (Horus?); legs restored in the 18. century AD using fragments of a statue belonging to the late Egyptian period - production place: Egypt - period / date: New Kingdom, later 18. (or 19. dynasty), Amarna-period, reign of pharaoh Amenophis III, ca. 1370 (or 1250) BC - material: syenite / granite / granodiorite - height: 168 cm - original location: probably the funerary temple of pharaoh Amenophis III at Thebes (West) - findspot: Rome, temple of Isis and Serapis (brought there by the Romans) - museum / inventory number: München, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst GL WAF 22 - bibliography: Sylvia Schoske, Dietrich Wildung, Das Münchner Buch der Ägyptischen Kunst, München 2013, 98-99, fig. 80 - Please note: The above museum permits photography of its exhibits for private, educational, scientific, non-commercial purposes. If you intend to use the photo for any commercial aime, please contact the museum and ask for permission. |
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| Author | ArchaiOptix |
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