<em>Hawk-Headed Handle</em>, ca. 1938–1759 B.C.E. Wood, garnet (?), gold, pigment, 3 11/16 x 1 5/8 x 1 1/4 in. (9.3 x 4.2 x 3.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 14.660. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.14.660_view1.jpg)

Hawk-Headed Handle, ca. 1938–1759 B.C.E. Wood, garnet (?), gold, pigment, 3 11/16 x 1 5/8 x 1 1/4 in. (9.3 x 4.2 x 3.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 14.660. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.14.660_view1.jpg)

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Hawk-Headed Handle

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

Votive animal mummies were associated with the king of the realm of the dead, Osiris, while his son, the hawk-headed Horus, was his successor on earth.

Osiris became the prototype for proper death because he was the first to be mummified and achieved eternal life in the next world. Thus all mummies of humans and animals imitated the mummification process and form followed to reanimate Osiris in the next world.

MEDIUM Wood, garnet (?), gold, pigment

DATES ca. 1938–1759 B.C.E.

DYNASTY Dynasty 12

PERIOD Middle Kingdom

DIMENSIONS 3 11/16 x 1 5/8 x 1 1/4 in. (9.3 x 4.2 x 3.1 cm) (show scale)

COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

ACCESSION NUMBER 14.660

CREDIT LINE Museum Collection Fund

EXHIBITIONS

Soulful Creatures: Animal Mummies in Ancient Egypt

MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view

CAPTION Hawk-Headed Handle, ca. 1938–1759 B.C.E. Wood, garnet (?), gold, pigment, 3 11/16 x 1 5/8 x 1 1/4 in. (9.3 x 4.2 x 3.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Museum Collection Fund, 14.660. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.14.660_view1.jpg)

IMAGE overall, CUR.14.660_view1.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2010

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