Ibis Mummy
Description
Caption: Ibis Mummy, 760–399 B.C.E.. Animal remains, linen, 30 × 7 5/8 × 5 1/2 in. (76.2 × 19.4 × 14 cm) as mounted: 7 × 11 × 33 in. (17.8 × 27.9 × 83.8 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1990E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (Gavin Ashworth, photographer))
AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano
Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.
A wrapped, mummy-like object of an ibis, shown standing upright, with the head preserved above the body wrapping.
The image shows a single small animal mummy displayed against a plain light background. The preserved head (rounded, brownish, with a partially visible beak area) rises above the body. The body is tightly wrapped in layered, beige/tan linen bandages with darker soiling and staining in places; the wrappings form horizontal and diagonal bands that converge toward the legs/feet area. The lower end includes a rounded foot or end of the legs, also wrapped and slightly darker at the tips. No clear painted decoration, cartouches, or readable text are visible on the wrappings or background. No specific deity iconography or inscriptions can be confidently identified from this view.
Cross-references (2)
- BKM-Accession 37.1990E tier-2
- BKM-Object 118491 tier-2
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- From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
- AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
- Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
- Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.