
Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool, World Museum
Mummified Snake
1973.4.156
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Mummified serpent (?) wrapped in bandages.
Ex Revd. William MacGregor Collection, purchased by Mr Stow for the Wellcome Historical Medical Museum at Sotheby’s, London, 26 June – 3 July 1922, Lot 640: "Five mummied Animals, comprising a Hawk, a young Jackal, and three snakes in bandages; also three bones from mummified animals, a bronze Probe, and three bronze Needles".