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Plain bundle, stylised head. Head with rigid false ears, moulded facial features and moulded eyes with painted features. Body given a bicoloured collar and plain shroud on upper and lower aspects. The overall body shape…
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Corn mummy identified (museum records state cat mummy). Osirian shaped, which is a little crude. Bundle is very hard. Layer of linen visible with black 'mud' substance packed on top.
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Plain and wrapped to shape of contents. Partially unwrapped at head and shoulders.Very black animal remains with traces of gilding. Distal end missing including tail feathers.
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Plain and wrapped to shape of contents. Partially unwrapped with patchy linen (light and dark colours) visible. Distal end missing including tail feathers.
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Plain and wrapped to shape of contents. Partially unwrapped yet complete bird. Claws and beak well preserved, although tail feathers damaged.
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Plain and wrapped to shape of contents. Beak complete and exposed. Tail feathers damaged also. Possible use of different strips of linen.
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Largely unwrapped bird. Tail feathers preserved, but which bow up at the end. A little linen adheres to central part of the upper aspect.
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Mostly unwrapped bird. Remaining linen is a coarse weave and quite crumbly in nature. No obvious pattern to the linen. Possibly once had a darker coloured linen also.
Flat, amorphous mummy bundle wrapped in light linen.
Radiographs show Complete mummy bundle containing the semi-articulated skeleton of a mature cat. There is considerable disruption in the thoraco-lumbar region and the upper limbs are…
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Decorated and wrapped to shape of contents. Almost "s-shaped ibis" in form of the bundle so query falcon identification. Complete shroud over bundle with indentation under head where upper layer of linen missing. Plain linen…
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Stylised bundle, no facial features. Wrapped to fish shape in plain light brown linen with thick reed (squashed to make it flat) and wrapped horizontally around the entire bundle. Tied in a knot at the head.
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Plain and wrapped to shape of contents. Beak and RHS eye socket exposed. Linen covering entire bundle at one point but now only covering head and feet. Under layer covered with flattened reed, wound horizontally around the whole…
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Plain wrapped to shape of contents, although which species is present is not recognisable. Sausage shaped bundle. Lost outer layer with second layer being uniform in weave.
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Long plain shroud tied at intervals with folded linen pieces. Continual central tie that circumvents the bundle at approx. 4cm intervals. One end damaged.
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Plain and conical bundle. Bundle is shrouded to lower aspect and stitched along the side aspects. The under layer (visible on the side aspects and upper-top aspect) shrouded also but 2 x thick, twisted string placed horizontally…
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Plain and wrapped to shape of contents, although almost conical shape. Linen missing in some areas and bones exposed. Possibly missing a head? Linen patchy brown and black. Linen weave unknown.
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Plain and wrapped to shape of contents with unicoloured linen in V pattern on upper aspect. Ibis in "s" shaped spine position is the likely content. Central, vertical strip of linen and cap at distal end. Lower aspect comprises…
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Plain and wrapped to shape of contents. Shrouded main bundle in coarse but even linen weave. Tied at both ends with a knot from a twine-like fabric with a red strip twisted into each side of the twine. Conservation pin at…