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Description: | ; Date(s): -30 - 100; Classification(s): organic remains, reptile mummy; Acquisition: transferred by Museum of Zoology, 1894 [E.1.1894]
Description: crocodile mummy. This mummy contains a piece of animal bone, not an entire crocodile. Ptolemy V (204-180BC) issued a decree declaring that each pot bought at a necropolois should contain the mummy of one animal. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/terms.htm | Publisher: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Rights holder: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Subjects: | reptile mummy organic remains | Source: | Fitzwilliam Museum | Creator: | The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, UK | Identifier: | http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/opacdire... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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