拍品 144
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AN EGYPTIAN GREY GRANITE COBRA HEAD
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AN EGYPTIAN GREY GRANITE COBRA HEAD

GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD, 4TH-1ST CENTURY B.C.

细节
AN EGYPTIAN GREY GRANITE COBRA HEAD
GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD, 4TH-1ST CENTURY B.C.
The snake with hooded eyes, with attachment holes for tongue and headdress (now missing), mounted
6¾ in. (17 cm.) high
来源
Galerie Arete, Zurich.
注意事项
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium

拍品专文

PUBLISHED:
Animals, 1996, III, no. 26; and Noah's Ark, 1997, no. 16.

The cobra was sacred to the goddesses Wadjet and Meret-seger.