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Description: | This is a fragment of Ancient Egyptian carving in fine grain limestone plaster. It comes from the site of Koptos in Upper Egypt and dates to the 26th Dynasty (about 664-525 BC). It is a carving of a falcon in bas-relief. Bas-relief means that the carving projects slightly from the background. The falcon was mainly associated with Horus, the god of the sky. The falcon is often depicted in Egyptian art in its simple hieroglyphic form like this example. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | archaeology egyptian | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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