Saturday, September 15, 2012

ancientpeoples: Falcon Pectoral 600BC 26th Dynasty(?)/Ptolemaic...









ancientpeoples:



Falcon Pectoral


600BC 26th Dynasty(?)/Ptolemaic (?)


Found in Egypt


Gold pectoral: in the form of a flying hawk in the round, its back a mass of cloisons once inlaid with polychrome glass, probably red, blue, green, but now much decayed.


(Source: The British Museum)



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