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Coffin for a cat

Hollow-cast copper alloy animal mummy coffin in the form of a seated cat with the tail curling around the right side, its tip surrounding both front paws. The figure contains a linen package stuffed into the upper torso (in the centre, the package is ca. 5 cm away from the lower rim of the tube), presumably containing the mummified remains of a cat.

Cat. 887
Metal / Bronze
10.77 cm x 18.5 cm x 6.5 cm
664–525 BCE
Late Period
Twenty–sixth Dynasty
Unknown
Purchase Bernardino Drovetti, 1824
Museum / Floor 1 / Room 11 RET / Armadio 48 SA / Shelf 01
Museo Egizio