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LOT 0029

Estimate
GBP (£) 800 - 1,000
EUR (€) 930 - 1,160
USD ($) 1,070 - 1,340

EGYPTIAN BRONZE COBRA MOUNT
LATE PERIOD, 6TH CENTURY B.C.
8 5/8 in. (182 grams, 22 cm).

Cobra-shaped mount with head raised and hood expanded, two mounting studs to the reverse; mounted on a custom-made stand.

PROVENANCE:
Private Israeli collection.
Ex Archaeological Center, Tel Aviv, Israel, 2015.
Private European collection.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.

LITERATURE:
Cf. Tiribilli, E., The bronze figurines of the Petrie Museum from 2000 BC to AD 400, GHP Egyptology 28, London, 2018, p. 295, no. 480, for a similar, though smaller, example.

FOOTNOTES:
The mount quite possibly adorned the Atef crown of a statue of Osiris.

CONDITION
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