Mummified hawk
This mummified bird was an offering to the ancient Egyptian gods. It has been ornately decorated, with the cloth wrapping formed into panels of concentric rectangles. These were originally dyed red and black. This bird was recently x-rayed and CT-scanned as part of the Ancient Egyptian Animal Bio Bank project at the University of Manchester.
(X-ray and CT images courtesy of The University of Manchester, and Central Manchester University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
(X-ray and CT images courtesy of The University of Manchester, and Central Manchester University Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- 106/1920/6
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- North Africa
- Material
- faunal remainstextilepigment
- Common Name
- mummified hawk
- Simple Name
- mummified bird
- Period Classification
- Late Period (Dynasties 26-31) - 661-332 BC; Ptolemaic Period - 332-30 BC
- Production Country
- Egypt
