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New Kingdom
Found in the debris associated with the tomb of Neferhotep the bowman, this head of a rearing cobra may, as per the suggestion of the excavator, have once adorned the forehead of an anthropoid coffin.
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Title: Cobra head
Period: New Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 18
Date: ca. 1550–1295 B.C.
Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb of Neferhotep (TT 316, MMA 516), MMA excavations 1922–23
Medium: Faience
Dimensions: L. 6 cm
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1926
Object Number: 26.3.311
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