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<em>Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra</em>, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.109_view04.jpg)
Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.109_view04.jpg)
<em>Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra</em>, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.109_view04.jpg)

Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.109_view04.jpg)

<em>Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra</em>, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.109_view03.jpg)

Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.109_view03.jpg)

<em>Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra</em>, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.109_view05.jpg)

Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.109_view05.jpg)

<em>Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra</em>, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.109_view06.jpg)

Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.109_view06.jpg)

<em>Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra</em>, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.109_view07.jpg)

Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.109_view07.jpg)

<em>Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra</em>, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.109_view08.jpg)

Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.109_view08.jpg)

<em>Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra</em>, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.109_view09.jpg)

Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.109_view09.jpg)

<em>Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra</em>, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.109_view10.jpg)

Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.109_view10.jpg)

<em>Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra</em>, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 16.109_SL3.jpg)

Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 16.109_SL3.jpg)

<em>Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra</em>, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 16.109_bw_IMLS.jpg)

Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 16.109_bw_IMLS.jpg)

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Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

MEDIUM Limestone (?)
  • Possible Place Made: Abu Shanab, Egypt
    • DATES 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E.
    PERIOD Ptolemaic Period to early Roman Period
    DIMENSIONS 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm)  (show scale)
    COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
    ACCESSION NUMBER 16.109
    CREDIT LINE Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour
    CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION Small limestone (?) fragment, possibly of a brick, but probably of a small stele or relief, with human headed cobra in high relief. Preserved portion in good condition excepting that face of woman is slightly battered. Good workmanship.
    MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
    CAPTION Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.109_view04.jpg)
    IMAGE overall, CUR.16.109_view04.jpg., 2018
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    <em>Relief Fragment of a Human-headed Cobra</em>, 332 B.C.E.-100 C.E. Limestone (?), 2 5/16 × 2 9/16 × 1 5/8 in. (5.8 × 6.5 × 4.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.109. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: , CUR.16.109_view04.jpg)

    TAGS

    332 B.C.E. - 100 C.E.
    Abu Shanab
    Body coiled with raised head
    Cobra
    Early Roman Period
    Egypt
    Egyptian
    Female
    Fragment
    Goddess
    Hathor (?)
    human head
    Limestone
    Ptolemaic Period
    Relief

    TAGS

    332 B.C.E. - 100 C.E.
    Abu Shanab
    Body coiled with raised head
    Cobra
    Early Roman Period
    Egypt
    Egyptian
    Female
    Fragment
    Goddess
    Hathor (?)
    human head
    Limestone
    Ptolemaic Period
    Relief

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