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Rupert Wace Ancient Art Limited
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Egyptian Relief of an Owl
( Egypt
664 BC to 332 BC
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Medium
Limestone
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Dimensions
23.00cm wide
32.00cm high
(9.06 inches wide 12.60 inches high)
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Provenance
Private collection, France, acquired prior to 1980
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Description / Expertise
This sizeable fragment is carved in sunk relief, the bird facing to the right with its face turned towards us. Certain species of bird occur in almost no other context than as a hieroglyphic sign. For the Egyptians, the owl had none of the more modern connotations of wisdom. It was the form by which the alphabetic hieroglyph ‘m’ was written and when the bird is depicted in isolation, that is what it represents.
Carved in limestone, from a hieroglyphic relief
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