This is a bronze-casted Ibex head that was created circa 1000 BCE. Other animal heads like this were used as figureheads on funerary and ceremonial boats in Egypt. This particular figurehead would have been on one of the ends of a funerary boat that could have carried the coffin and procession of a very important person or pharaoh to their final resting place. Funeral processions and religious ceremonies that required such means of travel and luxury were very common at this time in Egypt. This figurehead was created for for a boat in the 21st Dynasty of Egypt in the Third Intermediate Period. It was acquired by the Neues Museum in 1893 and is still housed there to this day.
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