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Category	funerary equipment
Name	Ptah-Sokar-Osiris box
Description	Ptah-Sokar-Osiris box, with crouching falcon; the box contains a papyrus scroll.
Field Collection	Akhmim Egypt
Technique Description	covered with gesso and painted
Dimensions	height 59 cm
Period	Late Period
Date	7664 B.C. — 332 B.C.
Provenance	bought: Budge, Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis 1887 (Filtered for: Antiquities)
Documentation	Budge, E.A. Wallis (1893) Catalogue of the Egyptian collection in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge (1893) [page: ] [comments: p.68, no. 15] Raven, M. Papryus-Sheaths and Ptah-Sokar-Osiris Statues [page: 253] Source title: Oudheidkundige Mededeelingen van het Rijksmuseum van Oudheden te Leiden (1978-1979) [comments: n. 18]
Material/s	mummified remains wood
Accession Number	E.23.1887 (Antiquities) (Reference Number: 49108; Input Date: 2003-03-25 / Last Edit: 2011-07-12)

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