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Bird Statue, Koptos
Limestone Statue of a Bird
Sitting on folded legs, with a stort-toothed beak. The precise identification of the species is uncertain.
From the temple of Min at Koptos, late Predynastic Period (about 3300 BC).
Given by Flinders Petrie and H. Martyn Kennard
AN1894.105a
Blbliography
W. M. Flinders Petrie, "Koptos" (Bernard Quaritch, London. 1896)
"12. Turning now to another subject, we find an entirely different style or styles of stone-carving, quite apart from anything known in Egyptian work. The forming of these figures is entirely done by hammer-work, without any trace of chiselling or of metal tools. And in style they stand outside of any line of development to or from the Egyptian statuary. Two classes of these figures are known at Koptos — a class of animals, comprising a bird (V, 6) and three lions (V, 5) (Oxford), and a class comprising parts of three colossi of the local god Min. The first class of these figures, the animals, are of the same nature, and of the same treatment, as the animal figures of the New Race of invaders of the Vllth-IXth dynasties. The positions in which they are found also agree with this. The bird lay in the earth under the pavement of the Xllth dynasty ; two of the lions lay on the basal clay in front of the early temple, several feet under the ground and building of the Ptolemaic time which covered them. These may therefore be set down as religious sculptures of the New Race, which go together with the characteristic pottery of the same people found at the same level."
PL. V, 6
Bird Statue, Koptos
Limestone Statue of a Bird
Sitting on folded legs, with a stort-toothed beak. The precise identification of the species is uncertain.
From the temple of Min at Koptos, late Predynastic Period (about 3300 BC).
Given by Flinders Petrie and H. Martyn Kennard
AN1894.105a
Blbliography
W. M. Flinders Petrie, "Koptos" (Bernard Quaritch, London. 1896)
"12. Turning now to another subject, we find an entirely different style or styles of stone-carving, quite apart from anything known in Egyptian work. The forming of these figures is entirely done by hammer-work, without any trace of chiselling or of metal tools. And in style they stand outside of any line of development to or from the Egyptian statuary. Two classes of these figures are known at Koptos — a class of animals, comprising a bird (V, 6) and three lions (V, 5) (Oxford), and a class comprising parts of three colossi of the local god Min. The first class of these figures, the animals, are of the same nature, and of the same treatment, as the animal figures of the New Race of invaders of the Vllth-IXth dynasties. The positions in which they are found also agree with this. The bird lay in the earth under the pavement of the Xllth dynasty ; two of the lions lay on the basal clay in front of the early temple, several feet under the ground and building of the Ptolemaic time which covered them. These may therefore be set down as religious sculptures of the New Race, which go together with the characteristic pottery of the same people found at the same level."
PL. V, 6