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According to Plutarch, the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, in preparing for her own suicide, tested various deadly poisons on condemned people and concluded that the bite of the asp (from the Greek word aspis, usually meaning an Egyptian cobra in Ptolemaic Egypt, and not the European asp) was the least terrible way to die; the venom brought ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects ... This is a list of extant snakes, given by their common names. Note ... Egyptian asp; African beaked snake; B ...
Three subspecies of S. diadema are recognized as being valid, including the nominotypical subspecies, and are found as follows. [2]Spalerosophis diadema cliffordi (Schlegel, 1837) – from Morocco to Egypt and Israel (Type locality: Tripoli, Libya)
The Egyptian sand boa is a heavily-built snake with a small head, small eyes, vertical pupils, and a short tail. Scale texture is extremely smooth, except on the tail, which is covered in bumps. Adult female specimens of G. colubrinus are rarely more than 91 cm (3 feet) in total length (including tail). [ 3 ]
These include the Egyptian cobra, false smooth snake and horned viper. There are also numerous species of lizards. [9] Above the Aswan Dam, the shores of Lake Nasser are largely barren, but the lake does support the last remaining Nile crocodiles and African softshell turtle in Egypt. [10]
This is common with Egyptian snake gods and associated with the imagery of snakes crawling across the earth. [9] When Geb is represented as his father, Nehebkau's mother is considered to be the harvest goddess Renenutet: [1] the ‘good snake’ who ensured bountiful fields, harvests and kitchens for the living [7] and nourished the kas of the ...
Telescopus obtusus, commonly known as the Egyptian cat snake, is a species of snake in the family Colubridae. The species is native to northern Africa , where it can be found in Egypt , Ethiopia , Eritrea , Sudan , Somalia , northern Kenya , Tanzania , the Central African Republic , Chad , and Uganda .