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Case for an animal mummy topped by a falcon

Unknown Artist

664–30 B.C.

Case for an animal mummy topped by a falcon by Unknown Artist

Medium

Cupreous metal

Dimensions

H. 13.4 cm (5 1/4 in.); W. 4.9 cm (1 15/16 in.); L. 21.2 cm (8 3/8 in.)

Classification

Mummy Case, falcon, double crown

Period

Late Period–Ptolemaic Period

Department

Egyptian Art

Museum

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Joseph W. Drexel, 1889

Accession Number

89.2.550

Tags

FalconsHorus

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