Model with a Vulture and a Human Bust

Description Conservation Provenance Credit

Description This model is carved in relief. The front depicts a vulture and a rearing uraeus. The back depicts a human bust. The piece has been repaired, and one half is broken off.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
7/20/1972	Treatment	cleaned
11/28/1972	Treatment	stabilized; coated

Provenance Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquistion unknown] [as from Abydos]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1911, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1911

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Creator

Egyptian (Artist)

Period

664-525 BC (?) (Late Period; Saite (?))

Medium

limestone
(Sculpture)

Accession Number

22.287

Measurements

L: 6 5/16 in. (16 cm)

Geographies

Egypt, El Balyana (Abydos) (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View