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Lot 157 - Auction 43

Bronze shrew sarcophagus Egypt, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BC

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Bronze shrew sarcophagus
Egypt, Late Period, ca. 664 - 332 BC
length (support) cm 17 x cm 11 (6,7 x 4,3”)
With the typical rectangular open form, characterized by a hollowed compartment containing a small mummy carefully wrapped; on the top, the shrew figure (crocidura religiosa) representing the night, guide of the deads and sacred animal of goddess Wadjet of Buto.

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English private collection formed in the 1980s.

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