Mold for Making a Benu Bird
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Caption
Mold for Making a Benu Bird, Limestone, 3 3/16 × 3 11/16 × 5/8 in. (8.1 × 9.4 × 1.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.126.
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Title
Mold for Making a Benu Bird
Dynasty
Dynasty 26, or later
Period
Late Period
Geography
Place made: Egypt
Medium
Limestone
Classification
Dimensions
3 3/16 × 3 11/16 × 5/8 in. (8.1 × 9.4 × 1.6 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour
Accession Number
16.126
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