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bird, Sokar hawk
Wooden painted bird red and yellow lattice decoration. During the Late Dynastic and Graeco-Roman period, wooden statues of the ba were placed on the lids and supports of rectangular sarcophagi and upon the rounded tops of funerary stelae, as though poised on an earth mound to ascend to the sky. The item is wood coated with gesso and then painted. The base measures 240mm long and the object is 175m…
Type of item
- bird, Sokar hawk
- Late Period - Graeco Roman
Date
- 747 B.C.-395 A.D.
- -0747/0395
Type of item
- bird, Sokar hawk
- Late Period - Graeco Roman
Date
- 747 B.C.-395 A.D.
- -0747/0395
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Identifier
- EC637
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2015-01-27T15:05:39.833Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2016-07-12T18:15:11.587Z