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Robinson and Family, 2023.102", "current_location": "107 Egyptian", "title": "Uraeus (Rearing Cobra)", "creation_date": "1307\u20131196 BCE", "creation_date_earliest": -1307, "creation_date_latest": -1196, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Egypt, New Kingdom (1540\u20131069 BCE), Dynasty 19"], "technique": "Silver-copper alloy with inlays (copper, feldspar, turquoise, obsidian?) and gilding", "support_materials": [], "department": "Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art", "collection": "Egypt - New Kingdom", "type": "Metalwork", "measurements": "height: 14.9 cm (5 7/8 in.)", "dimensions": {"height": {"height": 0.149, "height_inch": 5, "height_inch_fraction": 0.875}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [], "legacy": [{"description": "<em>A\u0308gypten : Augenblicke der Ewigkeit : unbekannte Scha\u0308tze aus schweizer Privatbesitz</em>, Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland (September 1997-11. January 1998); Antikenmuseum Basel und Sammlung Ludwig, Switzerland (18. March-13. July1997).", "opening_date": "1997-09-11T04:00:00Z"}, {"description": "<em>Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection</em>, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (Oct. 21-Nov. 29, 1981).", "opening_date": "1981-10-21T04:00:00Z"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "Dr. Leo Mildenberg (1913 - 2001), Germany and Switzerland", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "by 1981-2001", "sortorder": 1}, {"description": "(Sale: Christie's London, 26 October 2004, lot 123, unsold)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "26 October 2004", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "Mrs. Barbara Robinson, Cleveland, OH, gifted to the Cleveland Museum of Art", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "2004-2023", "sortorder": 3}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "2023-", "sortorder": 4}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The word <em>uraeus </em>comes from an Egyptian term for \u201crising/rearing up,\u201d describing the cobra\u2019s position.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Made from a silver-copper alloy, this rearing cobra likely served as a uraeus, symbolizing royal or divine power in ancient Egypt. Its lowermost portion likely fit into the top of the head of a large sculpture, while its body and tail seem cut short, perhaps making room for a solar disk to rise up behind. The eyes are inlaid, and six cavities for additional inlay remain on the expanded hood, the lowermost still intact, the others likely once filled with brightly colored blue and red stone. Much of the remaining surface may once have been gilded, to judge from remaining traces of gold on the back.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q122922177"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-2023.102-uraeus-rearing-cobra"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Kozloff, Arielle P. <em>Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection</em>. 1981.", "page_number": "no. 15, p. 62", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Page-Gasser, Madeleine, and Andre\u0301 Wiese.<em> E\u0301gypte: moments d'e\u0301ternite\u0301 : art e\u0301gyptien dans les collections prive\u0301es, Suisse</em>. 1997.", "page_number": "no. 136, p. 211", "url": ""}, {"citation": "Page-Gasser, Madeleine, and Andre\u0301 Wiese. <em>A\u0308gypten: Augenblicke der Ewigkeit : unbekannte Scha\u0308tze aus schweizer Privatbesitz</em>. 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