Votive Box with a Shrew Figure

1973.2.538b

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Figure of shrew on top of a small shrine-shaped box that would have held a votive animal mummy. CONDITION NOTE (1998): Highly corroded, incomplete, concretions. Wellcome Historical Medical Museum accession no. 27078: One encrusted bronze Egyptian figure of crocodile. 3½" long. 1¼" high. Bought of Oddment.