Description
The inlay depicts the falcon with an elaborate feather decor. The legs are missing and the original crown was probably made as an independent inlay.
Conservation
The object was dusted and surface cleaned with mineral spirits in preparation for exhibition and loan.
Date
Description
Narrative
12/31/1969
Treatment
cleaned; examined for exhibition; examined for loan
10/08/1974
Treatment
cleaned
Exhibitions
Die Entstehung der Welt. Ägyptens letzter Schöpfungsmythos (The Origin of the World. Egypt’s Last Creation Myth). Roemer- und Pelizaeus- Museum, Hildesheim; Kunsthalle Leoben, Leoben. 2014-2015.
Provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
