GlaViWo - Museum: AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-KHMU-SEM_0137

Kopf einer Schlange, wohl vom Henkel eines Miniatur-Schöpflöffels

 AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-KHMU-SEM_0137
Kunsthistorisches Museum (Ägyptische Sammlung, SEM 137)
Currently available: Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Ägyptisch - Orientalische Sammlung
Former owner: Glaser, Eduard Material: bronze, solid cast
Provenance: The object is part of a large collection which Eduard Glaser (1855-1908) brought back from his fourth trip to Yemen (1892-1894).
The Glaser collection was donated in 1894 by Samuel Horowitz (1841-1924), the chairman of the Jewish community in Lviv, to the then Imperial and Royal Ministry of Culture and Education. The collection subsequently came into the possession of the then Imperial Court Museum (now the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna).
Creation date: 5th century BCE - 1st century CE Production date:
Period/Culture: Ancient South Arabian
Locality: Yemen
length: 7.3 cm
diameter: 0.7 cm
First description: Müller, Südarabische Alterthümer, 1899, p. 65
Linked signature, parents: AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-OSTA-AVA-UP_1854CUM_1
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Linked signature, children: AT-OeAW-BA-3-27-F-00576



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