Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · funerary_equipment
Shrew Coffin of Pahapy Late Period to Ptolemaic PeriodLower Egypt, Egypt
Description
Object Label: Bronze coffins added value to votive mummies and possibly were thought to help influence the god to help the petitioner. A man named Pahapy used this coffin for a shrew mummy. The Egyptians regarded shrews as guardians of the sun god Re and included requests to him in many types of animal cemeteries. Caption: Shrew Coffin of Pahapy, 664–30 B.C.E.. Bronze, 2 1/8 x 1 1/2 x 3 1/2 in., 0.6 lb. (5.4 x 3.8 x 8.9 cm, 0.25kg). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.411Ea. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (Gavin Ashworth, photographer))
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Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.411Ea tier-2
- BKM-Object 117064 tier-2
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