Statuette of Horus as a Hawk

Description The god Horus embodied divine kingship: as god of the sky, he was depicted as a hawk or a man with a hawk's head. The hole on top of the head contains remnants of the base of a bronze crown or sun disk.

Provenance Maurice Nahman?, Cairo; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1928, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1928