Skip to main content
Advanced Search
Head of a cobra
Head of a cobra

Head of a cobra

FindspotGebel Barkal, Nubia, Sudan
Medium/TechniqueGray brown granite with red inclusions
DimensionsHeight x width x length: 10.5 x 14 x 15.5 cm (4 1/8 x 5 1/2 x 6 1/8 in.)
Credit LineHarvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
Accession number21.11700
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsSculpture
ProvenanceFrom Nubia (Sudan) Gebel Barkal, debris in Temple B 900, Ex-1. 1919: excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; assigned to the MFA by the government of the Sudan. December 26, 1919.