A RARE SILVER ALLOY AND INLAID OPENWORK ATTACHMENT in the form of a seated falcon, the god wearing a tripartite wig, a collar and a sun disc, and holding a maat-feather, attachment below, inlay now missing, 8th-7th Century B.C. or earlier

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A RARE SILVER ALLOY AND INLAID OPENWORK ATTACHMENT in the form of a seated falcon, the god wearing a tripartite wig, a collar and a sun disc, and holding a maat-feather, attachment below, inlay now missing, 8th-7th Century B.C. or earlier
3in. (7.8cm.) high

Lot Essay

Cf. A. Kozloff, Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection, Cleveland, 1981, pl. XIII, no. 48 for a silver-copper alloy uraeus dated to Dynasty XIX, when silver was widely used

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