AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE VOTIVE RELIEF ROMAN IMPERIAL PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D. Depicting Agathos Daimon and his consort Isis-Thermouthis, Agathos Daimon as a bearded serpent to the left, wearing the Double Crown with sheaths of wheat rising from the coils, Isis-Thermouthis as a cobra to the right, crowned with a solar disk and cow horns, a sheath of wheat and a poppy in the coils, their tails intertwined below a papyrus umbel supporting a vessel, or cista mystica , with a serpent handle, all enclosed within a raised frame 19 1/16 in. (48.4 cm.) wide
AN EGYPTIAN LIMESTONE VOTIVE RELIEF ROMAN IMPERIAL PERIOD, CIRCA 2ND CENTURY A.D. Depicting Agathos Daimon and his consort Isis-Thermouthis, Agathos Daimon as a bearded serpent to the left, wearing the Double Crown with sheaths of wheat rising from the coils, Isis-Thermouthis as a cobra to the right, crowned with a solar disk and cow horns, a sheath of wheat and a poppy in the coils, their tails intertwined below a papyrus umbel supporting a vessel, or cista mystica , with a serpent handle, all enclosed within a raised frame 19 1/16 in. (48.4 cm.) wide
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