The 400 pieces of the collection were put together by Giuseppe Acerbi, General Consul of Austria in Egypt between 1826 and 1834. Today they are in the museum of Mantua. The collection includes mainly statues and religious and funeral objects. The bronze objects are quantitatively important; all the objects lack any indication of their origin. One small statue of a pharaoh, one small statue of a cat, 14 small votive statues, one ewer (jug and basin) were examined by scanning electron microscopy with x-ray microprobe, atomic absorption spectrometry, and by x-ray diffraction. In most cases chemical analyses show a copper-tin-lead ternary alloy with low tin and high lead content (this composition is typical during the Later Dynastic and the Ptolemaic-Roman Period. The ewer is made from arsenical copper (characteristic of the Old and Middle Kingdom). All the bronzes are covered by cuprite and malachite-azurite patina. The corrosion is limited to the surface layer (0.5 mm).