Year of Object(s) Creation: Ptolemaic Period (300 -100 B.C.)
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Object Material(s): metal
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Provenience Location: Unknown
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Nation: Egypt
Location: Sold on the antiquities market in 1966 to the late Dr. James A. Diefenbeck who left it to the University.

Egyptian Bronze Reliquary Of A Cat


Description:
Bronze Reliquary of a Cat - Cat reliquary

Case Status: Object(s) relinquished
Year Claim Initiated: 1996
Year Claim Resolved: 2008
Means of Resolution: Sua sponte donation

Complainant Name: The Supreme Council of Antiquities
Complainant Nation: Egypt
Complainant Nation Economy: In Transition
Complainant Type: Public: Government

Respondent Name: University Museum, Southern Illinois University
Respondent Nation: United States
Respondent Nation Economy: Developed
Respondent Type: Public: Institution

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Editor's Notes:
There is no information if this object was illicitly removed from Egypt, nor is there information as to it's original provenance, therefore start date is from the point it was discovered on the open market.