DYNASTY XXX-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 380-30 B.C.

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AN EGYPTIAN POLYCHROME MOSAIC GLASS INLAY OF A HORUS FALCON
DYNASTY XXX-PTOLEMAIC PERIOD, CIRCA 380-30 B.C.
The standing falcon with opaque white breast, detailed coloured wing and leg feathers, yellow feet, repaired across legs
1 3/8 in. (3.4 cm.) high

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Lot Essay

PUBLISHED:
Animals, 1996, III, no. 38.

The Tomb chapel of Petosiris, high priest of Thoth, yielded a magnificent coffin with hieroglyphic glass inlays, now in Cairo museum (JE46592), cf. Catalogue of the Egyptian Museum Cairo, Mainz, 1987, no. 260a-b; also see, Christie's London, Ancient Glass Inlays, Part II, 7 July 1993, lot 129 for similar fragment.

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