Dog Mummy Late Period to Ptolemaic PeriodEgypt
Description
Object Label: Scholars associate the coffered, box-like pattern of linen wrapping on this dog mummy with the Roman Period in Egypt (30 B.C.E.–395 C.E.). Yet carbon 14 dating of a linen sample from this mummy suggests the linen is at least two hundred years older than that period. Either very old linen was recycled in the process of mummy making or this distinctive pattern of wrapping existed earlier than scholars had suspected. Future tests might resolve this question by sampling and testing the animal itself. Caption: Dog Mummy, 510–230 B.C.E.. Animal remains, linen, 17 × 5 7/8 × 3 1/4 in. (43.2 × 14.9 × 8.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1984E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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- BKM-Accession 37.1984E tier-2
- BKM-Object 4196 tier-2
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