Animal Mummy
Dublin Core
Title
Animal Mummy
Subject
Animal Remains, Linen and Gesso
Description
Horizontal and diagonally vertical lines form a checkered pattern on the body. Each "diamond" is coloured in blue or yellow with red spot in the centre. The top of the falcon is a realistic depiction of a falcon. The neck has again been checkered in red and yellow. The bottom of the object reveals the contents of the mummified shell, which looks charcoaled.
Function: votive object.
Function: votive object.
Source
Purchased from BC Galleries, Melbourne, with funds from the Alumni Association of the University of Queensland, 2004.
Date
332 - 330 BC
Identifier
4.039
Citation
“Animal Mummy,” RD Milns Antiquities Museum Online Exhibitions, accessed May 8, 2024, https://uqantiquitiesonlineexhibitions.omeka.net/items/show/57.