Sacred animal mummy containing small ibises, ca. 400 –100

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Sacred animal mummy containing small ibises, Late Period–Roman Period, ca. 400 –100 , From Egypt, Northern Upper Egypt, Abydos, Ibis Cemetery, Egypt Exploration Fund excavations, 1912–13, Dyed and undyed linen, animal remains, mummification materials, L. × W. × H. 7 cm (6 1/8 × 4 1/2 × 2 3/4 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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