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Coffin for a raptor

Hollow-cast copper alloy animal mummy coffin in the form of a falcon with a rectangular opening on the abdomen into which the mummy would probably have been introduced, though it might have been a votive statue of a falcon.

Provv. 5220
Metal / Bronze
4.9 cm x 12 cm x 5.84 cm
722–332 BCE
Late Period
Unknown
Unknown, 1824
Museum / Floor 2A / Mezzanine / Armadio 05 Metalli / Ripiano 05
Museo Egizio