owl

This small statuette in serpentine represents an owl. Carved in sculpture in the round the piece measures 13 cm from the brow to the tail, and 9.5 cm from the top of the skull to underneath the feet, which are folded under the body and joined with it The head is round, framed by a ring of finely grooved barbs. It could be that the statuette dates from the Protodynastic Period.

EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD/THINITE PERIOD

Inventory number E.2339

KMKG - MRAH

P. Gilbert, Une chouette en pierre de la Premiére Dynastie égyptienne, BMRAH 3e série 15 (1943) 115-117

Van dieren en mensen. Getuigenissen uit Prehistorie en Oudheid - Des animaux et des hommes. Témoignages de la Préhistoire et de l'Antiquité (Exposition), Bruxelles 1988, 179 nº 180

Th. De Putter et Chr. Karlshausen, Les pierres, Bruxelles 1992, 137, 138, 176, pl. 51b

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