Bronze Reliquary of a Cat		 Back to List of Recovered Artifacts  
 
 

 


  

Date: Ptolemaic Period (300 -100 B.C.)
Material: Bronze
Provenance: Unknown
Excavated: Unknow

Status: Repatriated

This cat reliquary was purchased on the antiquities market by the late James A. Diefenbeck in 1996. It was left to the University Museum of Southern Illinois University, who contacted the SCA and offered to return it. Arrangements were made, and the reliquary was returned to Egypt on July 31, 2008. It is now at the Cairo Museum.
The Mask of Ka-nefer-nefer, stolen from Egypt and currently in the possession of the St. Louis Museum of Art (St. Louis Museum of Art)

Bronze Cat Reliquary