Holy Serpent Gods, This Is An Egyptian Coffin Made For A Snake

Ancient Egyptians did n’t prepare only human bodies for the afterlife ; cats , baboons , crocodile , canines , and birds have all been found dry up . But there ’s something especially delightful about this long and skinny casket for snake .

This coffin is part of theBrooklyn Museum ’s collectionand it ’s date stamp 664 - 30 BCE , sometime during the Late Period to the Ptolemaic Period . And this snake in the grass is scarce the only wight that got an animal - shaped coffin . casket in the shapes ofibises , baboons , cats , and other infinite brute have been retrieve in Egypt .

Here ’s the verbal description from the museum catalog :

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Oblong bronze receptacle , probably for mummified reptilian , surmounted by long uraeus snake with human head . Uraeus and double poll on head , incise item . No inscription but snake is undoubtedly a representation of Atum . Condition : upright . The object has patently been clean moderately lately and this has been well done . Apparently it has been tack together from two pieces for there is a repair at about the centre , ancient ( ? ) . The end of the basis is missing . Good work .

quotation : Snake Coffin , 664 - 30 B.C.E. Bronze , 5 11/16 x 1 9/16 x 22 1/16 in . ( 14.4 x 3.9 x 56 cm ) . Brooklyn Museum , Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund , 36.624 . originative Commons - BY

Brooklyn Museum photograph ( Gavin Ashworth , photographer ) , 2012 .

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