Ptah offering shrine
This is an offering shrine to the god Ptah. It is probably from Memphis. Ptah was worshipped as the creator god in Memphis. He was usually portrayed as a mummy.…
shrew box
It is a box, made to hold a mummified shrew. It is from Egypt but the exact location is unknown. The ancient Egyptians worshipped shrews and ichneumons as sacred animals,…
Snake box
It is a box made to hold a mummified snake. It is from Naukratis. The ancient Egyptians saw snakes as evil and dangerous. They were also associated with eternity (because…
hawk shrine
This is a shrine made to hold a mummified hawk. It is from Saqqara. Horus was depicted as a hawk or as a man with the head of a hawk.…
Horus shrine
This is a part of a shrine made to hold a mummified hawk. It is from Tell el-Yahudiya. Horus was depicted as a hawk or as a man with the…
cat coffin
This is a statuette containing a mummified kitten. It is from Saqqara. Bastet was the cat-goddess and local deity of the town of Bubastis. In the late and Ptolemaic Periods…
ibis figure
This is a small figurine of an ibis bird. This object is from Egypt but the exact location is unknown. The Egyptians regarded the ibis bird as the incarnation of…
hawk
This is a mummified hawk. This object is from Egypt but the exact location is unknown. As with cats and other sacred animals, hawks and falcons were mummified and given…
kitten
This is a mummified kitten. We do not know where in Egypt it is from, but it may be from Bubastis. Bastet was the cat-goddess and local deity of the…
cat
This is a mummified cat. It is from the burial chambers around the temple at Istabl Antar near Beni Hassan. Bastet was the cat-goddess and local deity of the town…