Bronze Sculptured Work
date: label: Accession Date
content: 21 Jun 1902
name: label: Donor Name
content: S S. Howland
notes: label: Notes
content: Catalog card gives accession number 39335, but that is incorrect. 39535 is correct.
label: Notes
content: A handle for a very large aegis or emblem of a deity. This is large enough to be from a large ritual processional bark [a.k.a. barque, boat] for a god, attached to bow and stern. Probably Ptolemaic period. These were taken out of the temples on feast days and shown to the people. There would have been 2 such handles on this bark. Condition: covered with much dark corrosion, relief images difficult to discern clearly. The upper part has an image of a child suckling a deity wearing a horned disk [Isis or Hathor most likely]. The bottom portion which is round has a vulture with a crown, standing on a shrine in a papyrus marsh, with a cobra. Has cobras wearing crowns of upper and lower Egypt on the sides. This might have been for the goddess Nekhbet, whose cult center was at El Kab.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Apr 2022
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ancient Egyptian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 039535
label: USNM Number
content: A216167-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Figurine