Falcon-Shaped Wooden Coffin, With Falcon Mummy
date: label: Accession Date
content: 19 Jan 1959
name: label: Donor Name
content: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
label: Site Name
content: Akhmim
notes: label: Notes
content: From card: "Found at Akhmin by Maspero [Egyptologist and Director of the Cairo Museum Gaston Maspero], purchased from Egyptian Government 1886; Wood. Bibl.: MMA Egyptian Catalogue, 1898, No. 214. Painted red, black, and gold. 3-12-1987 lent to Memphis Pink Palace Museum; loan returned Dec 9 1987."
label: Notes
content: From NMNH Exhibit Hall "Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt" label for this artifact, 2011: Mummified falcon in coffin, 332-30 B.C. This wood coffin originally had legs and a sun disc emerging from the head to identify it with a sun god. A falcon mummy is still tucked in a recess in the back.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Apr 2025
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Upper Egypt, Egypt, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Ancient Egyptian
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 223500
label: USNM Number
content: A423000-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Animal Mummy / Coffin