mummy-case;
animal remains
- Museum number
- EA22752
- Description
-
Wooden mummy-case for mummified cat in form of seated cat; head painted green, body white. Also included under this number a quantity of cat bones from within the mummy-case.
- Dimensions
-
Height: 72 centimetres
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Length: 28 centimetres
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Width: 18 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Published: Art and Afterlife in Ancient Egypt (Japan 1999-2000): No 150
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
2001 26 Jun-23 Sep, Birmingham Gas Hall, Egypt Revealed
- Condition
- good
- Acquisition date
- 1889
- Acquisition notes
- In a report to the Trustees dated 3 October 1889, recommending purchase of the Lawson collection, Renouf noted that 'many of the objects ... were purchased by Mr Lawson at a sale of Egyptian antiquities which took place in the house of a French savant this year at Alexandria; the remainder were bought at Ahmim and Luxor.' The sources of the individual objects are not specified.
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA22752
- Registration number
- 1889,1012.1
