Snake Goddess

16th century BCE or early 20th century (Late Minoan or modern)

11.4 cm 27.9 cm 10.2 cm

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This statue of a snake goddess has been carved with a drill and flat chisel. The upper part is dowelled into the lower. The goddess wears a tall headdress with a snake wound around it. Her hands are pierced to hold snakes. The headdress is broken off and the upper part has bee...

Sculpture

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38074
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sculpture
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normalized
provenance
provenance
Leon Gruel, Paris, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1929, [mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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en
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9
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Minoan style
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