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    "localId": "540823",
    "label": "Uraeus (Rearing Cobra)",
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    "id": "540823",
    "contentType": "object",
    "title": "Uraeus (Rearing Cobra)",
    "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.",
    "date": "1307–1196 BCE",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2023.102",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q122922177"
    ],
    "genreSpecific": [
        "Metalwork"
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "height: 14.9 cm (5 7/8 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "Egypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 19"
    ],
    "accession": "2023.102"
}

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    "tec": "Silver-copper alloy with inlays (copper, feldspar, turquoise, obsidian?) and gilding",
    "tombstone": "Uraeus (Rearing Cobra), 1307–1196 BCE. Egypt, New Kingdom (1540–1069 BCE), Dynasty 19. Silver-copper alloy with inlays (copper, feldspar, turquoise, obsidian?) and gilding; height: 14.9 cm (5 7/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Barbara S. Robinson and Family, 2023.102",
    "collection": "Egypt - New Kingdom",
    "didYouKnow": "The word <em>uraeus </em>comes from an Egyptian term for “rising/rearing up,” describing the cobra’s position.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Kozloff, Arielle P. <em>Animals in Ancient Art from the Leo Mildenberg Collection</em>. 1981.",
            "page_number": "no. 15, p. 62"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Page-Gasser, Madeleine, and André Wiese.<em> Égypte: moments d'éternité : art égyptien dans les collections privées, Suisse</em>. 1997.",
            "page_number": "no. 136, p. 211"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Page-Gasser, Madeleine, and André Wiese. <em>Ägypten: Augenblicke der Ewigkeit : unbekannte Schätze aus schweizer Privatbesitz</em>. Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1997."
        },
        {
            "citation": "Mottahedeh, Patricia Erhart, and Gisela Zahlhaas. <em>Out of Noah's ark: animals in ancient art from the Leo Mildenberg collection.</em> Mainz: P. von Zabern, 1997.",
            "page_number": "cat. 15"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Christie, Manson &amp; Woods. <em>A Peaceable Kingdom: The Leo Mildenberg Collection of Ancient Animals.</em> London: Christie's, 2004.",
            "page_number": "no. 123"
        }
    ],
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2023.102",
    "creditline": "Gift of Barbara S. Robinson and Family",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 09:11:04.277000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2023.102/2023.102_print.jpg",
    "sourceId": 540823,
    "dept": "Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Art",
    "coll": "Egypt - New Kingdom",
    "med": "Silver-copper alloy with inlays (copper, feldspar, turquoise, obsidian?) and gilding",
    "thumbnail_url": null,
    "image_url": null
}

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