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| Keywords: Egyptian - Falcon Sacred to Horus - Walters 22409.jpg The falcon was associated with several celestial gods One was Horus a deity closely identified with living monarchs This sculpture served as a protective image at a temple and once had a crown made separately perhaps also from stone or even gilded bronze ca 380 150 BC Late Period-early Greco-Roman granodiorite cm 39 2 15 8 32 accession number 22 409 27612 Dikran Kelekian New York and Paris Henry Walters city Baltimore Walters Art Museum Henry Walters Acquired by Henry Walters 1914 place of origin Egypt Walters Art Museum license Ancient Egyptian statues in the Walters Art Museum Statues of Horus Sculptures of falcons | ||||
