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The Ophidian Iconography Quest (Mundus Vetus & Mundus Novus, 2004 - present) |
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| Figure NAF-egy-024. Addorsed rearing uraeus hooded cobras wearing the hedjet (White Crown of Upper Egypt), deshret (Red Crown of Lower Egypt), or shuti (Two-Feather Crown) and flanking shen cartouches; the personification of infinity (eternity) and god of "millions of years" Heh sitting on a basket, holding the notched palm branches, and wearing a solar disc flanked by two addorsed rearing uraeus hooded cobras. |
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Artist/Workshop: | Historical/Art Period, Date: |
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| Nubian sandstone | Sunken relief (Pronaos, colonnade, carved decoration, detail, in situ) |
Royal workshops | Ptolemaic, from Ptolemy VI Philo-metor (180-145 BC) to Ptolemy XIII Theos Philopator (r. 51-47 BC), 180- 47 BC/Roman Impe-rial, 27 BC-200s AD |
Kom Ombo Temple Complex, Kom Ombo, Aswan, South Egypt |
Temple of Sobek, Haroeris, Hathor, Khonsu |
| Source-Image(s): The image(s) is/are from Alexei Alexeev's personal photo archive (The First Egyptian Expedition, 5-19 March 2006). All artefacts will be available for viewing in the Compendium's respective volumes after the completion of the fully integrated iconographic database. Some of the artefacts will be represented by several figures (offering a general view and details). |
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