Ichneumon Figure

1973.2.553e

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Small figure of an ichneumon, perhaps from a shrine-shaped box that would have held a votive animal mummy. CONDITION NOTE (1998): Concretions. Wellcome Historical Medical Museum accession no. 171904: FIGURE. Bronze, of an ichneumon. Roman. Purchased at Stevens's, London, 4-5 May 1931.