Two Egyptian mummified animals
Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, circa 664-30 B.C.
Comprising a small mummified crocodile and a mummified bird, with stained bandaging, 25.5cm and 12.5cm long respectively together with a Coptic weaver's comb, circa 5th-7th Century A.D.
with short teeth and diagonal grooves at one corner, old collection number '19838' inked on the body, 10.5cm x 9.8cm (3)注脚Provenance:
Dr Grierson collection, Thornhill, Dunfriesshire, 1960s.
Scottish art market.
Private collection, Edinburgh.

For a similarly shaped comb but with a long handle, see Brooklyn Musuem, NY, acc. no. 05.330.