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Uraeus
664 BC-525 BC
XXVIth Dynasty
XXVIth Dynasty
Bronze on a timber base
Height: 7cm
Museum number: MR53
Vermeule catalogue number: Vermeule 22
On display: Model Room (pre-booked tours only)
All spaces are in No. 13 Lincoln's Inn Fields unless identified as in No. 12, Soane's first house.
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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'.
Provenance
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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