ABSTRACT

EARLIEST SCULPTURES 123 style of the early pyramid period. That Sneferu specially favoured hawk figures is seen by those in his temple at 11edum. There I found five hawks, one of blue glaze, one of grey limestone (in colour not unlike this from Serabit), and three of common white limestone (PETRIE, AlcdulIl, pI. xxix, pp. 9, 34). The many references to this king on later monuments here, which we have noticed in Chapter VII, show how well he was known as the founder of the shrine of Serabit; thus the evidence of the hawk, which is a contemporary monument, is confirmed. This figure is now in the British Museum.