Falcon Coffin
Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker
Dynasty 26, about 600 BCE
Bronze
Overall: 3 in. (7.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the Estate of C. Morrison Fitch, Class of 1924
S.969.64.31
Geography
Place Made: Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Sculpture
Research Area
Ancient Egypt
Africa
Not on view
Inscriptions
Label on bottom of modern base: “Falcon sign of Horus - God of the Sun - Therefore of Life, from Edfu and of the XXVI Dynasty, 660 BC. From Harvard excavations in 1925, and guaranteed by the Egyptian Museum.”
Course History
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
Exhibition History
Egyptian Antiquities at Dartmouth, Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12, 2011-August 13, 2012.
Provenance
Harvard Excavations, 1925; collected by Coleman Morrison Fitch (1902-1969), New York; bequeathed by C. Morrison Fitch to present collection, 1969.
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