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Falcon's Head
1350-1250 BC
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
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- Title: Falcon's Head
- Date Created: 1350-1250 BC
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 2.7 x 1.8 x 2.1 cm (1 1/16 x 11/16 x 13/16 in.)
- Provenance: Said to be from Thebes, Wadi Qubbanet el-Qirud. Purchased from Joseph Hassan Ahmed, Luxor, by Lucy Olcott Perkins through Henry W. Kent
- Type: Sculpture
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1914.708
- Medium: face of bronze inlaid with gilt copper, wig of black copper (?) with copper striations
- Department: Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Culture: Egypt, New Kingdom, late Dynasty 18 (1540-1296 BC) or early Dynasty 19 (1295-1186 BC)
- Credit Line: Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust
- Collection: Egypt - New Kingdom
- Accession Number: 1914.708
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