Wooden cobra
- Accession Number
- EC436
- Current Location
- House of Death (ground floor), Animals case
- Object Type
- Sculpture, Statue
- Periods
- Late Period to Graeco-Roman Period
- Material
- Wood
- Provenance
- Egypt
- Measurements
- Height: 148mm | Width: 45mm | Depth: 49mm
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Animal
- Snake
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Licensing details
This image may be used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. For uses not covered under the Creative Commons license, or to license images for commercial uses,
please contact the Egypt Centre.
- Description
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A wooden cobra with a circular disc upon its head. It is labelled '485b'. There are a hole and peg through the centre.
- Other Identity
- 485b (rectangular label with blue frame)
- Previous Owners
- Robert de Rustafjaell (1859–1943) | Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
- Last modified: 23 Oct 2020