Snake Cofffin - Bronze Box
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Jan 1959
name: label: Donor Name
content: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
notes: label: Notes
content: From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Bronze snake votive, 332-30 B.C. Easily dried and wrapped, snakes fit into small containers like this that Egyptians probably gave as offerings to Atum, one of the creator gods.
label: Notes
content: See possibly related object A422996?
label: Record Last Modified
content: 17 Jan 2024
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ptolemaic Period
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 223500
label: USNM Number
content: A422998-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Coffin