New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Relief of a cow

Artist Unknown

DateNo Date

MediumStone | Wood

DimensionsOverall: 2 x 2 3/4 in. (5.1 x 7 cm)
Base: 2 3/4 in. (7 cm)

ClassificationsEgyptian

Credit LineGift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.

Object number77.882

Terms

Religion
Gray

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DescriptionRectangular plaque sculpted in relief. It shows a bovid, turned to the right, with a double necklace or rolls of fat around the neck, a bulge under the abdomen (udder or penis?) and a long bushy tail. It has a sun-disk between its horns and a reared cobra on its forehead. It is striding toward a little altar where offerings, maybe leaves, are laid. On the far right is a small tree, and behind the animal grow two lotus blossoms. The scene takes place above a stream of water, and it is framed on the left by a vertical frieze of horizontal short strokes. The cow and the water band are sculpted in raised relief, while the rest is in sunk relief.