#uraei

[spice-hill]

Aegis, 946-525 B.C.E

Bronze

Egyptian

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Bronze aegis of a goddess wearing the sun-disc and horns on top of a modius of uraei with falcons flanking her.

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Bronze Kushite Pharaoh

Late Period, Kushite, 25th Dynasty, ca. 713–664 B.C.

From Egypt and Sudan, Nubia

The small bronze kneeling king represents two aspects of art of the Kushite Period that are intensifications of tendencies already extant in the Third Intermediate Period. Provision of small bronze royal attendant statuary demonstrated an specially pious regard for the gods and their temples. Stylistically there was an inclination toward models from the past, particularly the Old Kingdom, a taste clearly visible in the broad shoulders and narrow waist of the small bronze.

At the same time, Kushite kings wore distinctive regalia, including a cap crown, double uraei, and ram's-head amulets. On the kneeling king, the double uraei have been "corrected" to one and the ram's-head amulets have been hammered out by a later Saite king, but the large gold ram's-head amulet is an actual example of the type worn on the king's neck cord.

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Gold Signet Ring - Nubian (Sudan), Meroitic Period 50 B.C.–225 A.D.

This ring was found in the debris on the the coffin bench, along with four other signets. The circular, intaglio bezel features a falcon’ head in profile with a double-feather crown. The falcon is set in a sun disk flanked by uraei.

[amntenofre]

"House of Birth" of the Sanctuary of the Goddess Hathor at Nitentóre (Dendera), detail from the right jamb of the interior side of the Doorway of the Inner Shrine: three lion-headed Uraei

[via-appia]

Bracelet or armlet with uraei

Egypt, Central Delta, 304 B.C.–A.D. 364

[egyptbitches]

Meeks and Meeks figure 4

"Bronze depicting a worshipper kneeling before the jackal-headed god Anubis and two uraei. The uraeus on the left wears the red crown of Lower Egypt, while that on the right wears the white crown of Upper Egypt; they are thus evidently Wadjyt and Nekhbet, the patron goddesses of Lower and Upper Egypt, respectively."

From 10/31 hw

[archaicwonder]

Egyptian Bronze Oxyrynchus Fish - Late Period, circa 664-332 BC

The Oxyrynchus is species of fish of the Nile River which was important in Egyptian mythology as the fish that ate the penis of Osiris, though it is not known today exactly which species of fish this was. The fish is shown wearing a crown of uraei with a horned solar disc.

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