Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art · funerary_equipment
Mummified Dog Ptolemaic Period to Roman PeriodEgypt
Description
Object Label: Mummification was sometimes available for pets of the very wealthy, but most animal mummies were offerings to the gods. Caption: Mummified Dog, 305 B.C.E.–395 C.E.. Animal remains, linen, pigment, 3 1/4 x 18 x 7 in. (8.3 x 45.7 x 17.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 05.308. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 05.308 tier-2
- BKM-Object 3203 tier-2
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