The elaborately decorated box features a falcon statuette on top of its lid. Inside is a tightly wrapped linen bundle. X-rays have shown that it does not contain a complete bird mummy but only feathers.
Late Period, ca. 600–30 B.C., H. 58.5 cm, W. 24.9 cm, D. 33.3 cm, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 12.182.5a–c
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