The British Museum, A falcon-headed fish

A very rare mummy case for a mummified fish about 3ooo years old, this wooden mummy case has the face of the falcon god Horus with a body of a Nile perch .Ancient Egyptians mummified their animals since their archaic history specially the divine ones, the fish, generally, was a holy creature and as been mentioned in the myth of Osiris that his own body after been dismembered his pieces were thrown into the river and were eaten by the Nile perch and by the Elephant-snout fish. Then the fish cult had existed in
some provinces such as at Ta-Sna or Esna. Fish coffins had taken the classical forms such as the one type shown in the photo.
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