For those who couldn’t guess last week’s mystery animal mummy—the Egyptian
For those who couldn’t guess last week’s mystery animal mummy—the Egyptians venerated the shrew, a mouse-sized nocturnal creature, because they believed it to be the counterpart for the ichneumon, with full vision during the night. Shrews were regarded as guardians of the sun god Re and included requests to him in many types of animal cemeteries. Bronze coffins added value to votive mummies and possibly were thought to help influence the god to help the petitioner. Shrew Coffin of Pahapy, 664–30 B.C.E. Bronze. | Shrew Mummy, 30 B.C.E. – 50 C.E. Animal remains, linen. | Shrew Coffin, 664–30 B.C.E. Bronze, animal remains. Brooklyn Museum. -- source link
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