Ancient Sculpture and Works of Art

An Egyptian Bronze Uraeus, Late Period, 716-30 B.C.

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Description

An Egyptian Bronze Uraeus

Late Period, 716-30 B.C.

probably from the crown of large statuette, finely modeled, the cobra shown erect, its flaring hood with recesses for glass inlay, a square tenon behind for attachment.

Height 8.5 cm.

private collection, Paris, acquired in the 1970s/1980s
acquired by the present owner in 2014

Compare George Steindorff, Catalogue of the Egyptian Sculpture in the Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore, 1946, pl. CIV, no. 699.