Mummified hawk
This mummified bird was an offering to the ancient Egyptian gods. It has been wrapped in coarse bandages over a layer of finer bandages. The top layer criss-crosses over the body in a decorative pattern and is wound horizontally around the neck and tail. 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.
- 106/1920/7
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- North Africa
- Material
- faunal remainstextile
- 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