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Curatorial note
A Uraeus, i.e. a cobra with spread hood. Probably from a statue of another material. The earliest inventories of Soane's Museum (1837) mis-describe this object as 'A small fish. Antique. Bronze'.
Unknown; in Soane's collection by the time of the creation of the Model Room in c.1834. Soane describes the showcase containing small items MR42-MR68 in the Model Room in his 1835 Description.
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