staff;
model;
votive offering
- Museum number
- EA27596
- Description
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Solid-cast model of ceremonial staff in copper alloy; papyriform staff, surmounted by figure of raised uraeus (cobra) wearing the White Crown (Nekhbet?); lower part of staff broken; surface corroded.
- Production date
- 664 BC - 332 BC
- Dimensions
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Height: 8.52 centimetres (maximum)
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Thickness: 0.60 centimetres
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Width: 1.73 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Papyriform staffs are usually surmounted by the figure of an animal (see for example: Weiss 2012, Taf. 41e-f, 42a, 43b, 71c). Naukratis provided a few fragmentary papyriform staffs, as well as a finial for staff, with either figures of a raised cobra, like here, or a ram's head.
This bronze votive belongs to the type T 12a in the typology of animal bronzes by K. Weiss (Weiss 2012, 276, 725, Taf. 42a/b, Typ T 12a). A parallel is known from the falcon catacomb in North Saqqrah (Davies, Smith 2005, 108, pl. LVI c).
Davies, S., Smith, H.S., The sacred animal necropolis at North Saqqara: the falcon complex and catacomb (Egypt Exploration Society Memoirs 73), London.
Weiss, K. 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.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Fair, though incomplete and corroded
- Acquisition date
- 1885
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA27596
- Registration number
- 1885,1101.104
