Head of a Cat

mid 8th-late 1st century BCE (Late Period to Ptolemaic)

5.5 cm 6.3 cm

Citation

This head of a cat is broken at the neck. The ears are pierced for the insertion of earrings.

Artifact

id	id 12491
contentType	contentType object
stage	stage normalized
provenance	provenance Charles D. Kelekian, New York, [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Beatrice A. Kelekian, New York, 1982, by bequest; Walters Art Museum, 1992, by bequest.
rightsUri	rightsUri CC0
language	language en
pageCount	pageCount 0
source	source import

Source image fields (2)

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sourceUrl	https://purl.thewalters.org/art/22.443

Culture

Egyptian

Medium

bronze

Genre

figurines

createdBy

Egyptian

inCollection

Ancient Egypt and Nubia