Falcon

Description Conservation Provenance Inscription Credit

Description This statuette of a falcon is carved in the round and has a hole on top of his head to implement a crown. Parts of the legs are missing. Ptolemaic until early Roman Period.

Conservation

Date	Description	Narrative
2/29/1984	Treatment	repaired

Provenance Fouquet [date and mode of acquistion unknown]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1923 [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Inscriptions [Label] Old label reads: 420 Mho

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters, 1923

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Creator

Egyptian (Artist)

Period

2nd century BCE-1st century CE (Greco-Roman)

Medium

granodiorite
(Sculpture)

Accession Number

22.72

Measurements

H: 2 1/16 x W: 11/16 x D: 1 11/16 in. (5.27 x 1.82 x 4.23 cm)

Geographies

Egypt (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View