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Bronze plate: Python (with decorative cartouches)
The vertically coiled python connects heavenly otherworld and earthly world. He is therefore, like the king he symbolizes, a mediator between the worlds. Here he descends from the upper world - just like the blessings that the king draws down to earth for the benefit of mankind. To this end, he brings offerings and celebrates ceremonies in honor of the royal ancestors, his intercessors with the gods in the afterlife. Text: Dietmar Neitzke.
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- Cultural attribution
- Edo
- Object type
- Relief
- Dimensions
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Width: 16.5 cm
Height: 50 cm - Material/Technique
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Copper alloy
Lost wax process
- Current location
- Linden-Museum Stuttgart
- Inventory number
- 005392
Provenance and sources
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Assignment to a curated holding:
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Change of physical control or legal title
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where
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Nigeria
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Change of physical control
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when
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1899
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- Provenance
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In October 1898, the Hamburg company "H. Bey & Co" offered the Berlin Ethnological Museum a Benin collection that came directly from Africa. However, due to a lack of funds, the entire collection could not be purchased and was therefore to be passed on to other interested parties. Felix von Luschan of the Berlin Museum therefore informed Karl Graf von Linden in November 1898, and offered him a right of first refusal. The Linden Museum then made 15,000 M available for the purchase of objects. The purchase price was paid by the Heilbronn entrepreneur Karl Knorr, which is why the collection became known as "Die Karl Knorr'sche Sammlung von Benin-Altertümern". Von Luschan published a detailed description of the collection under the same title (1901) on behalf of Count Linden and Knorr. Other buyers of the collection included the museums in Vienna and Munich, but also people such as Hans Meyer (Leipzig) and Eugen Rautenstrauch (Cologne). Text: Markus Himmelsbach.
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