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Animal mummy coffin with the figure of a hybrid creature

A long rectangular hollow-cast copper alloy animal mummy coffin surmounted by the figure of a hybrid creature with the undulating body of an eel (Anguilla vulgaris), the front of which takes the form of an erect uraeus with a human head wearing the double crown over a tripartite wig.

Cat. 2400/01
Metal / Bronze
2.4 cm x 8 cm x 17.9 cm
772–332 BCE
Late Period – Ptolemaic Period
Unknown
Old Fund, 1824–1888
Museum / Floor 1 / Room 11 RET / Armadio 48 SA / Ripiano 02
Museo Egizio