Card/Transcription No.: 112

112 Wooden hawk, covered with gesso and gilt.

1. Position
In S.W. corner of chamber: on floor: near mannequin.

2. Dimensions
Pedestal 9.8 x 5.2 x 2
Hawk 21 max. x 7.2 (spread of tail) x 17.5
Disk 17.5 high x 18 wide.

3. Description
Wood, covered with gesso, and overlaid with gold.
Crowned with disk of same material.
Legs & pedestal of metal, also covered with gesso and gilt.
Pedestal & rounded piece of bronze, concave underneath to fit pole. Legs & pedestal in one
piece?
No holes in pedestal, the binding being carried straight round pole & over pedestal.
Feathers of bird in relief in the gesso.
Disk plain
From a chariot ? Cp. 157 & 160.
Treatment Cleaned with damp brush sprayed with celluloid in amyl acetate: Repaired with
celluloid cement