Bronze Coffin For Snake

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Object Details

Donor Name

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Notes

A Late Period bronze coffin for a mummified snake, i.e., a votive offering and not a tally stone.

Since object is a bronze snake coffin, rather than a quartzite tally stone, the provenance of Thebes may also be in question. See possibly related object A422998?

Record Last Modified

3 Jan 2024

Specimen Count

Culture

Egyptian, New Kingdom Period, Dynasty XVIII

Accession Date

19 Jan 1959

Accession Number

223500

USNM Number

A422996-0

Object Type

Coffin

Place

Thebes (not certain), Upper Egypt (not certain), Egypt, Africa

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Anthropology

Data Source

NMNH - Anthropology Dept.

Topic

Archaeology

Metadata Usage

CC0

Link to Original Record

http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/31c09c9e0-4b24-4416-a269-46c597272f27

Record ID

nmnhanthropology_8175519