Statuette
57-18-1
From: Egypt | Thebes (uncertain) (Egypt) | Buto (uncertain)
Curatorial Section: Egyptian
| Object Number | 57-18-1 |
| Current Location | Collections Storage |
| Culture | Meroitic |
| Provenience | Egypt | Thebes (uncertain) (Egypt) | Buto (uncertain) |
| Period | Twenty-Sixth Dynasty |
| Date Made | 664-610 BCE |
| Section | Egyptian |
| Materials | Limestone |
| Iconography | Snake Goddess | King | Horus | Nekhbet | Wadjet |
| Inscription Language | Hieroglyphic |
| Description | Composite limestone statuette consisting of a statue of a female serpent deity in front and a stela in back. The goddess has the body of a cobra and a human head. She wears a tall plumed headdress with horned sun disk. On the sides of the statue are representations in sunk relief of the goddesses Nekhbet and Wadjet and a text referring to Psammetichus I. Stela at back depicts a king with the god Horus, but is unfinished. |
| Height | 44 cm |
| Depth | 29.3 cm |
| Credit Line | Purchased from Frank J. Tano, 1957 |
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