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Cowled Sparrow-Hawk with Staff and Mask

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Title:
Cowled Sparrow-Hawk with Staff and Mask
Collection:
Cornell Gem Impressions Collection
Date:
19th century
ID Number:
GI_01_025
Accession Number:
01_1_0025
Winckelmann No.:
25
File Name:
GI_01_025.jpg
Work Type:
casts (sculpture)
Materials/Techniques:
casting (process)
turquoise (mineral)
Subject:
inscriptions
Egyptian
Masks
Birds
Description:
The sparrow-hawk lies in the middle of the impression, the staff to its left. The mask is to the hawk's right and looks toward the hawk in profile.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Collecting Program:
Cornell Collections of Antiquities
Archival Collection:
Cornell Collections of Antiquities
Format:
Image
Rights:
The content in the Cornell Collection of Antiquities: Gems Collection (in part the White Collection of Historical Medallions, #8420, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections) is believed to be in the public domain by virtue of the age of the underlying material, and is presented by Cornell University Library under the Guidelines for Using Text, Images, Audio, and Video from Cornell University Library Collections [http://hdl.handle.net/1813.001/CULCopyright]. This collection was digitized by Cornell University Library in 2013 from original materials, with funding from a Digital Collections in Arts and Sciences Grant to Caitlin Barrett and Verity Platt. Responsibility for making an independent legal assessment of an item and securing any necessary permissions ultimately rests with persons desiring to use the item. Please contact rareref@cornell.edu for more information about this collection, or to request permission to use these images.

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