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Saqqara: the Sacred Animal Necropolis: UC 30663

UC 30663

Bronze censer.

The object was probably produced in three parts, which are casts. 1. There is the tubular shaft with a cartouche on it. 2. There a papyrus flower at one end extending into a hand (under the round cup on the left, not visible on the picture). 3. The end is shaped into a falcon's head. There are remains of a frit core inside the handle. Found in cache 9.

Green 1987: 42-43, no. 88


 

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