Painted wooden figure of a bird

Painted wooden figure of a bird

Wooden image of a bird, possibly the ibis, painted in black and white on both sides. Although ibis images are most common in the Late Period, the style and flat form of this example finds closer parallels in the late 18th Dynasty. A spoonbill of similar style, now in the Brooklyn Museum, was uncovered in excavation of the palace of Amenhotep III at el-Malqata.

THEBES: WEST BANK

3RD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD

Inventory number 1892:261

NATIONAL MUSEUM OF IRELAND

Margaret Murray, National Museum of Science and Art, General Guide III. Egyptian Antiquities, Dublin 1910.

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