Sacred animal mummy containing small ibises, Late Period–Roman Period, ca. 400 B.C.–100 A.D., From Egypt, Northern Upper Egypt, Abydos, Ibis Cemetery, Egypt Exploration Fund excavations, 1912–13, Dyed and undyed linen, animal remains, mummification materials, L. 15.5 × W. 11.5 × 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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Sacred animal mummy containing small ibises, Late Period–Roman Period, ca, 400 B.C.–100 .D, Egypt, Northern Upper Egypt, Abydos, Ibis Cemetery, Egypt Exploration Fund excavations, 1912–13, Dyed, undyed linen, animal remains, mummification materials, L, 15.5, W, 11.5, H, 7 cm, 6 1/8, 4 1/2, 2 3/4, Animal cults, Egyptians considered, certain, individual, animals, living manifestations, god, earliest times, Apis bull, individuals, duly mummifed, died, buried, eternal life, replaced, another single, living, manifestation
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