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Ibis-Form Mummy in Jar

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.1952Ea-c. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.1952Ea-c
Find spot: Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Late Period to Ptolemaic Period
Dynasty: Dynasty 27, or later
Date: 510–210 B.C.E.
Date range: 510 BCE – 210 BCE
Materials: ['Clay', 'animal remains', 'linen']
Height: 16.0 cm
Width: 8.5 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, Ibis-Form Mummy in Jar (37.1952Ea-c). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/18280

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Description

Object Label: Ceramic jars were common, inexpensive coffins for animal mummies. There were two types of lids. In the first, a lid for an ordinary jar could be fashioned from mud and straw. In the second, an opening could be made in the jar while the clay was still wet; both the jar and its cover could then be fired together. Caption: Ibis-Form Mummy in Jar, 510–210 B.C.E.. Clay, animal remains, linen, 6 5/16 × 3 3/8 × 2 3/4 in. (16 × 8.5 × 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1952Ea-c. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (Gavin Ashworth, photographer))

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

The image shows two views of an Egyptian funerary animal mummy: a reddish-brown clay jar fragment and a separate bundled, bandaged form shaped like a bird/small animal, likely an ibis. No clear inscriptions are readable.

On the left is a terracotta/red-brown container (jar) with a flared rim; its interior appears hollow, and the exterior has light surface patches or residue. The rim and upper body are chipped and abraded. On the right is a narrow, elongated bundle wrapped with linen-like fabric strips arranged in vertical and horizontal bands. The bundle has a pointed or tapered end at the bottom and a rounded top that suggests it is inserted into or associated with the jar form. The wrapping includes dark brown/black strokes or marks and a banding pattern resembling stitched or painted lines, but no clearly legible hieroglyphic characters, cartouches, or Greek/Coptic/Arabic text can be confirmed from the image.

funerary Late Period to Ptolemaic Period (as catalogued); precise dating uncertain from image alone poor

Materials Claylinen-like wrappingsanimal remains (suggested by bundled form, not directly identifiable)

Connections

Materials Clay Textile Linen-Like Wrappings

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.1952Ea-c tier-2
BKM-Object 118456 tier-2

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