Coffin with Coiled Snake (Atum) on the Top

Arts of Africa

Late Period–Ptolemaic Period (664–30 BCE)

Egyptian

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Arts of Africa

Culture: Ancient Egyptian
Title: Coffin with Coiled Snake (Atum) on the Top
Place: Egypt (Object made in)
Date: 664 BCE–30 BCE
Medium: Bronze
Inscriptions: Inscribed with prayer to Atum
Dimensions: 8.3 × 5.1 × 4.1 cm (3 1/4 × 2 × 1 5/8 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Charles L. Hutchinson and Henry H. Getty
Reference Number: 1892.159
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Thomas George Allen, A Handbook of The Egyptian Collection (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1923), p. 108.

Émile Brugsch (1842-1930), Bulaq Museum and Egyptian Antiquities Service, Cairo; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1892; price reimbursed by Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson, 1892.

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