| Show A Croc Croco dUe nazmy the tailed and interesting collection of mummy cases and funereal far alture contained in toe the british mum has ban recently ly been enriched by um the acquisition if an enormous croco yibao th ahm creature measures ea etreo anil itzea vellore vel lyre vre q sm been added to the british has 1111 a that discovered at national collection was kom in upper egypt a city where tills this creature was VMS Tene venerated rated as 22 and where ruing 2500 B ear early ly as still remain ha having ving pain paintings tings relating delatin 9 to the adoration adOra tiOu of at the south side of one temple the remains of a large pond have bave been found which probably arved served to satisfy saudy the amphibious iansiti instincts nets of this adorable monster during the reign of ptolemy ahlis delphus B C the worship of the crocodile reached its highest point the method employed in mating makin g crocodile mummies seems to have varied with taste and means while some are exquisitely bandaged others as in the present case were simply dipped in a I 1 solution of wax and pitch which re renders n them perfectly hard and by which the young progeny are securely fixed in the hollows parts of the back ana th s i is one of the finest specimens ot of a crocodile known it was presented to the british museum by tho egyptian government |
