Object Details
- Donor Name
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Site Name
- Akhmim
- From card: "Found at Akhmin by Maspero [Egyptologist and Director of the Cairo Museum Gaston Maspero], purchased from Egyptian Government 1886; Wood. Bibl.: MMA Egyptian Catalogue, 1898, No. 214. Painted red, black, and gold. 3-12-1987 lent to Memphis Pink Palace Museum; loan returned Dec 9 1987."
- From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Mummified falcon in coffin, 332-30 B.C. This wood coffin originally had legs and a sun disc emerging from the head to identify it with a sun god. A falcon mummy is still tucked in a recess in the back.
- Record Last Modified
- 30 Jul 2020
- Specimen Count
- 1
- Culture
- Ancient Egyptian
- Accession Date
- 19 Jan 1959
- Accession Number
- 223500
- USNM Number
- A423000-0
- Object Type
- Animal Mummy / Coffin
- Place
- Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa
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- Anthropology
- NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
- Topic
- Archaeology
- Record ID
- nmnhanthropology_8175523
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/3264cf363-c5b3-4059-9f6b-a88a53df3eb9
