Sacred animal mummy of an ibis, ca. 400 –100

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Sacred animal mummy of an ibis, Late Period–Roman Period, ca. 400 –100 , From Egypt, Northern Upper Egypt, Abydos, Ibis Cemetery, Egypt Exploration Fund excavations, 1912–13, Dyed and unyed linen, animal remains, mummfication materials, L. 41 × W. × H. cm (16 1/8 × 4 15/16 × 6 15/16 in.), Animal cults, The Egyptians considered certain individual animals to be living manifestations of a god, such as, since earliest times, the Apis bull . Those individuals were duly mummifed when they died and buried for eternal life, then replaced by another single living manifestation

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