Serpent

Serpent

This amulet in blue-green faience comes from the excavations of W. F. Petrie at El-Lahun. It represents Neheb-kaou, a chthonic divinity, with a human body and the head of a serpent, raising a spherical object to the mouth. The serpent-god symbolises the vital force in the universe and corresponds to a form of Re-Atum.

EL-LAHUN

3RD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD

Inventory number E.5675

KMKG - MRAH [

W. F. Petrie, G. Brunton et M. Murray, Lahun II, Londres 1923, 43 (comparer pl. L et LXVIII nº 32, 33)

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