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CIVILIZATION | Egyptian |
PERIOD | Late-Ptolemaic |
DATE | circa 664-30 B.C. |
MATERIAL | Bronze |
MOUNTED | Yes |
The bronze cobra with flaring hood and bulging eyes, the curving body bent backward and curved along the back of the hood, a projecting horizontal tenon at the back for attachment.
The Uraeus was seen as a royal insignia and divine authority in ancient Egypt.
For a similar example surmounted by a sun disk, see Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, accession no. 41.160.110.
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CATEGORY | Egyptian |
PERIOD | Late-Ptolemaic |
DATE | circa 664-30 B.C. |
MATERIAL | |
MOUNTED | Yes |