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Description: | This object is a relic box for a small mummified animal or bird. Inside the box there are 3 fragments of mummified animal. Relic boxes consist of rectangular containers of bronze or wood in which a few bones of the sacred animal could be placed. On top of the box would be a figure of the appropriate creature. The unusual figure on top of this box is a falcon-headed sphinx. A sphinx is a composite creature with the body of a lion and the head of another creature. In Ancient Egypt this other creature was usually a human, but sometimes it was a falcon or a ram. | License: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/about/copyright/ | Rights holder: | Tyne & Wear Museums | Subjects: | archaeology egyptian | Source: | Tyne and Wear Imagine | Identifier: | http://www.imagine.org.uk/details/index.... | Go to resource |
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