Sokar hawk
- Accession Number
- EC231
- Current Location
- House of Death (ground floor), Coffins case, Left
- Object Type
- Sculpture, Sokar hawk
- Period
- Late Period
- Material
- Wood
- Provenance
- Egypt
- Measurements
- Height: 82mm | Width: 59mm | Depth: 143mm
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Animal
- Falcon/hawk
- Divine Name
- Sokar
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Licensing details
This image may be used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. For uses not covered under the Creative Commons license, or to license images for commercial uses,
please contact the Egypt Centre.
- Description
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Items such as these represent Sokar, a god of rebirth. The item is made of wood covered in painted gesso. There is a hole in the top of the bird's head (likely for a headdress) and three dowel holes in the base.
- Bibliography
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Anonymous. 1996. The face of Egypt: Swansea Festival exhibition: 5 October 1996–5 January 1997. Swansea: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery. [Cat. 190]
- Other Identity
- 487A (round label with blue border) | 953 (rectangular serrated label)
- Previous Owners
- Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936) | Robert de Rustafjaell (1859–1943)
- Acquisition
- Long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
- Last modified: 18 Oct 2020