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Engraved plate showing a bull butting an egg on a pedestal, flanked by an egg with a crescent and a serpent wrapped around an egg.

Asiatic Devices Allusive to the Cosmogony: Golden Bull and Egg of Chaos

An engraved plate with three framed scenes. Centre: a bull with a horn pressed against a large egg resting on a pedestal, while two small kneeling figures sit below. Flanking it are an urn-shaped egg topped by a crescent, left, and a serpent coiled around an egg, right. Fine black-and-white line engraving with a printed caption beneath.

Artist
Thomas Maurice
Date
[1795]
Medium
Etchings
Source
Wellcome Collection
Size
4000 × 3080 px
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Public domain · Wellcome Collection marks it Public Domain Mark; made by 1795.
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: Public Domain Mark (Wellcome Collection)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Wellcome Collection

Ancient Egypt18th century1790s1795engravingetchingblack and white printserpentcrescent moon

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