Double Cobras with Sun Disks
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University

46-Double Cobras with Sun Disks

Title Double Cobras with Sun Disks
Era Egyptian, Late Period, 722–332 BCE
Medium Bronze
Credit Gift of Georges Ricard Foundation. 2018.10.915

This plaque was once inlaid with colored stone or glass. It depicts two rearing cobras with sun disks on their heads. One similar excavated example came from the falcon catacombs in north Saqqara, dated to the first half of the fourth century BCE.1

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Bibliography

Davies and Smith 2005
Davies, Sue and H.S. Smith. 2005. The Sacred Animal Necropolis at North Saqqara: The Falcon Complex and Catacomb, The Archaeological Report. EES Excavation Memoir 73. London: Egypt Exploration Society, 2005.
Weiss 2012
Weiss, Katja. 2012. Ägyptische Tier- und Götterbronzen aus Unterägypten: Untersuchungen zu Typus, Ikonographie und Funktion sowie der Bedeutung innerhalb der Kulturkontakte zu Griechenland. Ägypten und Altes Testament 81. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag.
Double Cobras with Sun Disks
© Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University