Crocodile mummies and fragments

Museum number:
6-21629a-d
Permalink:
ark:/21549/hm210621629a@2dd
Alternate number:
969 (field number)
Accession number:
Acc.54/56/63/107
Description:
Crocodile mummies a) 2 pieces (tail separated), one foot missing; length: 32 cm; b) front half of crocodile mummy; length: 19 cm; c) crocodile “mummy” with separate carved wood head; three legs; length of head: 10.1 cm; length of body: 32 cm; x-ray shows no animal bones; d) crocodile tail on red-painted wood platform; length of tail (wood wrapped with cloth): 12.2 cm; length of platform: 12 cm.
Donor:
Phoebe Apperson Hearst
Collection place:
Uncertain provenience, Tebtunis, Faiyum region
Verbatim coll. place:
Tebtunis (Umm el Baragat)?
Collector:
Arthur S. Hunt and Bernard P. Grenfell
Collection date:
1899-1900
Materials:
Wood (plant material)
Taxon:
Crocodylus niloticus
Object type:
archaeology
Object class:
Mummies (bodies)
Department:
Ancient Egypt
Comment:
Hearst Inventory: Fake
Loans:
S1968-1969 #139: Department of Classics (UC Berkeley) (June 30, 1969–August 15, 1969)
Legacy documentation:
Documentation associated with Hearst Museum object titled Crocodile mummies and fragments, accession number 6-21629a-d, described as Crocodile mummies a) 2 pieces (tail separated), one foot missing; length: 32 cm; b) front half of crocodile mummy; length: 19 cm; c) crocodile “mummy” with separate carved wood head; three legs; length of head: 10.1 cm; length of body: 32 cm; x-ray shows no animal bones; d) crocodile tail on red-painted wood platform; length of tail (wood wrapped with cloth): 12.2 cm; length of platform: 12 cm.

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