animal mummy;
mummy-wrapping
- Museum number
- EA6772
- Description
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Mummy of an Apis bull consisting of the head and some of the principal bones, reinforced with a reed frame and covered with linen, the hindquarters are covered with light-brown linen, the forequarters and head are covered with red/brown linen, much of this material is now missing revealing the reed frame and packing beneath, the front of the body is covered with a panel of decorative bandages arranged in patterns of concentric squares, the horns are exposed and the eyes indicated with painted pupils surrounded by applied circles of different coloured linens.
- Dimensions
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Height: 40.50 centimetres (max)
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Length: 70 centimetres (approx.)
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- poor (very decomposed)
- Acquisition date
- 1821
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA6772
- Registration number
- .6772
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BS.6772 (Birch Slip Number)
