DescriptionHorus as falcon god with Egyptian crown from the 27th dynasty (05).jpg
English: object type: statue of a deity
- description: an Egyptian god, probably Horus, in the form of a falcon wearing the combined crown of Upper and Lower Egypt with the Egyptian cobra on the front
- production place: Egypt
- period / date: late period, 27. dynasty (Persian rule), ca. 500 BC
- material: silver, electrum
- height: 26,9 cm
- findspot: Egypt
- museum / inventory number: München, Staatliches Museum Ägyptischer Kunst, loan from the Bayerische Landesbank
- bibliography: Sylvia Schoske, Dietrich Wildung, Das Münchner Buch der Ägyptischen Kunst, München 2013, 143-144, fig. 120
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