Falcon Sacred to Horus

Description The falcon was associated with several celestial gods. One was Horus, a deity closely identified with living monarchs. This sculpture served as a protective image at a temple and once had a crown made separately, perhaps also from stone or even gilded bronze.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
7/14/1967	Treatment	cleaned
8/25/1998	Examination	survey
8/19/1999	Treatment	cleaned
6/26/2001	Treatment	cleaned; other
6/26/2001	Treatment	cleaned

Provenance Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1914, by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1914