Votive Box with a Snake Figure

1973.2.538c

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Coiled snake on top of a small shrine-shaped box that would have held a votive animal mummy. Label says "Gizeh Museum". CONDITION NOTE (1998): corroded. Wellcome Historical Medical Museum accession no. 211125. Purchased at Stevens', London 9 - 10 September 1930 Lot 732 "Curious bronze pendant, bronze ladle, figure of Isi, Osiris, Horus, and Pasht, snake box, and 2 others, all from Egypt".