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With sun-disc on its head, symbol of royal protection. Skin rendered by short parallel strokes. Cast with blank spaces on the hood for coloured inlays now lost, and U-shaped fitting for attachment to another (wooden?) item. The cobra-goddess Wadjet of Lower Egypt was one of the two mythological protectors of the Pharaoh.

h. 13 x w. 3 cm

mid-1st millenium BC

Bronze

Provenance

Ex private collection, Berne
Mrs. Lotti Vautravers collection, Bremgarten, Switzerland, 1960-1970
Acquired at Cahn Auktionen AG, Muenchenstein, Switzerland, 21st September 2009, lot 117

Publications

Cahn Auktionen AG, 18th September 2009, lot 67
P. Clayton, "Ancient Egypt" in M. Merrony (ed.), Mougins Museum of Classical Art, France, 2011, p. 46, fig. 21
C. Dauphin, Animals in the Ancient World. The Levett Bestiary, Levett Collection Series 2, France, 2014, p. 35 and 86
C. Dauphin, Les Animaux dans le Monde Antique. Le Bestiaire Levett, Serie Collection Levett 2, France, 2016, p. 17, fig. 14 and 77

Exhibitions

Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, from June 2011
Animal, Musée d'Art Classique de Mougins (MACM), Mougins, France, 26th February 2016 — 1st May 2016

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Egyptian Bronze Uraeus (Forepart of Rearing Cobra)

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