Sarcophagus for an ibis
In ancient Egypt many ibis birds were offered to the god Thoth. This limestone sarcophagus was for the mummified remains of a baby bird, and has demotic text on the outside, a simplified handwritten form of hieroglyphs.
Object Summary
- Accession Loan No.
- A469
- Category
- Antiquities
- Collection Class
- Foreign archaeology
- Collection Area Region
- North Africa
- Collector Excavator
- Jones, Winslow, Mr
- Material
- stonelimestone
- Common Name
- sarcophagus for an ibis
- Simple Name
- sarcophagus
- Period Classification
- Late Period (Dynasties 26-31) - 661-332 BC; Ptolemaic Period - 332-30 BC; Roman Period - 30 BC-AD 384
- Production Country
- Egypt
- Production Year Low
- -500
- Production Year High
- 0; ;
