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Horus falcon on shrine-shaped coffin
332-330 B.C.E.


Possibly Ptolemaic Dynasty

Bronze
H: 16.8 W: 5.8 D: 24.3 cm
Egypt

Gift of Charles Lang Freer F1907.154

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This oblong bronze pedestal might have served as a coffin for a small mummified animal. It is surmounted by a Horus falcon wearing the Crown of Upper and Lower Egypt.