Statuette of a Cat, or a Kitten Coffin
Unidentified Ancient Egyptian maker
Late Period (743-332 BCE) to Ptolemaic Period (332-30 BCE)
Bronze
Overall: 5 11/16 × 2 1/16 × 3 3/8 in. (14.5 × 5.2 × 8.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of Glover Street Hastings III
181.2.25997
Geography
Place Made: Egypt, Northern Africa, Africa
Period
1000 BCE-1 CE
Object Name
Ceremonial Artifact: Votive
Research Area
Ancient Egypt
Africa
Not on view
Course History
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Spring 2015
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
REL 55, Ancient Egyptian Religion, Susan Ackerman, Fall 2019
ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2020
Exhibition History
Egyptian Antiquities at Dartmouth, Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art, Alvin P. Gutman Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, February 12, 2011-August 13, 2012.
Provenance
Walter Hines Page Collection (1855-1918); to Glover Street Hastings III, West Newton, Massachusetts and Bridgeton, Maine, 1920's-1930's; bequeathed to his daughter, Carlena Hastings Redfield (1888-1981), 1949; bequeathed to present collection [under the terms of her father's will], 1981.
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