| Animal Type: | Ibis |
| Category: | herringbone |
| Museum: | National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden |
| Accession Number: | H.III.EEE.1 |
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| Date: | Persian Period ? |
| Description: | The mummy is wrapped so as to reconstruct the natural appearance of the ibis, with the head bent back over the folded wings and the belly flat on the ground. The head and long bill have been covered by a single sheet of medium-fine linen (warp-faced tabby weave, about 9 x 30 threads/cm2). The eyes are visible as bulbous protrusions under the linen, marked with some black pigment. There is a short cylindrical support behind the head with a vertical perforation for fixing a headdress. The exterior bandages around the body start at the tail end and run around the shoulder/chest area and back to the tail where they form an interlocking chevron pattern. These bandages were applied in overlapping layers (width 0.5-1.0 cm, edge doubled) from the head and the centre of the back down to the edge of the flat undersurface. The latter is covered by a single sheet, now much blackened and decayed. |
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| Bibliography: | Schneider, 1987, no. 163 cat. Leemans N 19 en N 20 cat. Boeser E.XLV.58 M.J. Raven/W.K. Taconis, Egyptian mummies (Turnhout 2005), cat. 100 Holwerda, Dierenmummies (2008), 38 |
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| Source: | http://www.rmo.nl/collectie/zoeken?object=H.III.EEE+1 |
