Cat Statuette intended to contain a mummified cat
The Metropolitan Museum of Art · 56.16.1 · public domain
Statuette, cat: Cat Statuette intended to contain a mummified cat. Accession 56.16.1 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ptolemaic Period, 332–30 BCE. Medium: Leaded bronze. Public domain Open Access record with credit line and museum link. Free on Serpent Earth.
- Object type
- Statuette, cat
- Period
- Ptolemaic Period · 332–30 BCE
- Medium
- Leaded bronze
- Credit line
- Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1956
- License
- CC0 (public domain)
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