Statue of a crocodile
- Accession Number
- W88
- Current Location
- House of Death (ground floor), Animals case
- Object Type
- Sculpture, Statue
- Periods
- Late Period to Graeco-Roman Period
- Material
- Metals/alloys (Copper alloy)
- Provenance
- Egypt
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Animal
- Crocodile
- Measurements
- Height: 19mm | Length: 105mm | width: 32mm
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Licensing details
This image may be used under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license. For uses not covered under the Creative Commons license, or to license images for commercial uses,
please contact the Egypt Centre.
- Description
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A copper alloy crocodile, dating to the late Dynastic to Graeco-Roman period. It was purchased by Wellcome from the collection of Robert de Rustafjaell in 1906.
- Bibliography
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Anonymous. 1996. The face of Egypt: Swansea Festival exhibition: 5 October 1996–5 January 1997. Swansea: Glynn Vivian Art Gallery. [Cat. 87]
- Other Identity
- 822 (rectangular serrated label)
- Previous Owners
- Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936) | Robert de Rustafjaell (1859–1943)
- Acquisition
- Long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
