Ibis Mummy
Description
Caption: Ibis Mummy, 664–332 B.C.E.. Animal remains, linen, 15 × 5 1/4 × 4 in. (38.1 × 13.3 × 10.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.2042.16E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)
AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06
Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
An ancient Egyptian mummified animal wrapped in linen bandages.
The image depicts a mummified animal, possibly a bird or small mammal, wrapped in layers of linen bandages. The object has a conical shape, and the outer wrapping shows a careful arrangement of strips, characteristic of ancient Egyptian mummification techniques. The color is a natural linen tone, and there are no visible inscriptions or decorations on the surface.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.2042.16E tier-2
- BKM-Object 186364 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.