Wooden Gilded arm-shaped incense burner

Wooden Gilded arm-shaped incense burner, consisting of a handle with head of falcon end with a hand extended with a vase

Artefact Details

Gallery number: 48 – Upper Floor Period: Ptolemaic Period Place of discovery: Dimai – Fayum, 1893 Size: Length 55 cm Material: Gilded Wood

Censer of gilt wood. In the form of a human arm. The hand holds a goblet. Part of the censer is a box in the form of a cartouche. The end is in the form of the head of a sparrow hawk. On the front of the goblet is a uraeus.