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Object Type
Museum number: EA64272
Description: Mosaic slice: a Horus falcon, in profile, standing, facing left on a translucent dark-blue field. The bird is beautifully rendered with polychrome plumage in red, green, white, black, and yellow. The headdress appears to be the double crown but this area is either misfired or damaged. A small hole was bored in the upper background apparently to facilitate the attachment. The left edge is broken with the loss of the front of the face and body.
Cultures/periods
Production date: 1stC BC
Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Amarna, el- (?)
Materials
Technique: bored; mosaic
Dimensions: Width: 2.10 centimetres
Bibliographic references: Cooney 1976 / Glass (1722); Tait 1991 / Five Thousand Years of Glass (pl.60)
Location: Not on display
Subjects
Associated names
Acquisition name
Acquisition date: 1890
Department: Egypt and Sudan
BM/Big number: EA64272
Registration number: 1890,0517.8

Free entry