Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · funerary_equipment

Cat Coffin Late Period or laterSaqqara

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.1944Ea-b. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.1944Ea-b
Find spot: Saqqara, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Period or later
Date: 664 B.C.E. or later
Date range: 664 BCE – 664 BCE
Materials: ['Wood', 'gesso', 'pigment', 'animal remains']
Height: 48.6 cm
Width: 14.0 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Cat Coffin (37.1944Ea-b). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/18736

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Caption: Cat Coffin, 664 B.C.E. or later. Wood, gesso, pigment, animal remains, 19 1/8 × 5 1/2 × 10 1/4 in. (48.6 × 14 × 26 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1944Ea-b. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

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Found at Saqqara

Materials Wood Pigment

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.1944Ea-b tier-2
BKM-Object 118449 tier-2

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