Ibis Mummy
Description
Object Label: The shape of this animal mummy resembles that of a human mummy or the figure of the god Osiris, king of the dead. The painted plaster remains of an elaborate headdress, like those worn by kings, and a curved beard also emphasized for an Egyptian viewer this mummy’s close connection with Osiris. The X-ray shows a complete ibis inside the wrappings. Caption: Ibis Mummy, 664–332 B.C.E.. Animal remains, linen, cartonnage, pigment, 23 × 7 × 4 in. (58.4 × 17.8 × 10.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1986E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
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 an elongated, mummified animal form laid horizontally on a modern support, with one end bearing a small applied head area and a bordered label-like element bearing blue-painted markings.
The object appears as a single mummified animal (consistent with the catalogue’s “Ibis Mummy”) with wrinkled, light-brown wrappings covering most of the body. The left (head) end shows a more detailed, darkened head structure with a small rectangular, light-colored piece attached near the beak/face; this attached element includes multiple vertical and horizontal blue lines/marks resembling pigment on an applied surface. The rest of the body is largely uniform wrappings with faint traces of color and surface wear. No clearly legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or Greek/Coptic/Arabic text are visible in the provided image; the blue marks are too small/ambiguous to reliably identify as specific sign(s) or inscriptions. The modern mounting/covering (white support and darker background) is visible around the artifact.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1986E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118488 tier-2
About this record's data
- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.