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Serpent Tongue Scraper
This piece is a refernce to how all humans lie. It is a play on the old concept of how if your mother caught you swearing of lying she would threated to wash your mouth out with soap. This piece is to clean the lies out of you.
When you insert this into your mouth, it makes it look like you have the tongue of a snake, the lier in the bible. You can also use the forked end to pick between your teeth.
Forged sterling silver.
Scrapers.
Neolithic period.
6900-3900 BC.
Dima or Kom Achim.
Giza Fayum region.
Egypt.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Kristján Guðmundsson, aprÃl 2007.
source - wikipedia. The scraper was sitting behind this fence in this underground room off to the side of a courtyard the tour skipped for time. We were being rushed and I didn't take a picture of it!