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.

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

Files

https://s3.amazonaws.com/omeka-net/28220/archive/files/40e3667151ed6c56636874629d689014.jpg

Citation

“Animal Mummy,” RD Milns Antiquities Museum Online Exhibitions, accessed May 8, 2024, https://uqantiquitiesonlineexhibitions.omeka.net/items/show/57.