Monday, January 5, 2015

The Animal Mummy Database

[First posted in AWOL 9 January 2012, updated 5 January 2015]

The Animal Mummy Database
1,137 Animal Mummies Online!
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Animalmummies.net is a searchable database of Ancient Egyptian animal mummies. Animal mummies were created by the millions during the Late-Roman Periods in Egypt, mostly to be used as votive offerings at temples of gods associated with those animals. Some were extravagantly made with decorations and colorful wrappings to be sold at high prices at the temples. During early excavations in Egypt, many animal mummies were dug up and discarded. Very few examples were saved and sent to museums. This has resulted in only a small sampling of these objects being studied. Animal mummies, however, provide important insight into the lives and religion of Ancient Egyptians during a crucial point in their history and deserve to be studied in-depth.

This site was created as a resource for both scholars and the interested public in the hopes that it may become a collaborative project to help gather information on animal mummies. We encourage contributions from museums, researchers and individuals in the hopes of enlarging the corpus.

Searches can be done on any of the descriptive fields as well as advanced searches, which combine two or more fields. There is also a Browse mode which lists mummies by animal type, wrapping type and museum.

Browse by Animal Type

Antilope
Baboon
Baboon ?
Bird
Bird ?
Bull
Buzzard
Cat
Cat ?
Cow
Crocodile
Crocodile ?
Crocodile egg
Dog
Dog ?
Eagle
Egg
Falcon
Falcon ?
Fish
Fish ?
Gazelle
Goat
Goose
Hawk
Hawk ?
Ibis
Ibis ?
Kestrel
Kite
Lamb
Lizard
Nile Perch
Nile Turtle
Owl
Rabbit
Ram
Raptor
Rat
Scarab
Sheep
Shrew
Snake
Snake ?
Sparrowhawk
Stork
Unknown
Vulture

Browse by Wrapping Type



applique
bitumin
bracing
bracing ?
checkerboard
checkerboard woven
diamond
diamond bracing
diamond lozenge
diamond lozenge ?
herringbone
herringbone ?
human
interval bracing
lost
lozenge
meander
meander ?
multiple
netting
netting ?
painted plaster
plaster
shroud
shroud ?
shroud interval ?
spiral
spiral ?
spiral?
square bracing
square interval
square lozenge
square lozenge ?
star bracing
woven

Browse by Museum


Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia
Agriculture Museum, Cairo
Antikenmuseum und Sammlung Ludwig, Basel
Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Bolton Museum and Art Gallery
Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery
British Museum
Brooklyn Museum
Cairo Museum
Corban Museum
Denver Museum of Nature and Science
Department of Natural History in Valasske Mezirici, District Museum, Vsetin
District Museum, Olomoue
Durham Museum
Field Museum of Natural History
Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Getty Institute
Haggin Museum, Stockton, California
Houston
Kharga Oasis Museum
Kunsthistorisches Museum
Liverpool Museum
London
Louvre
Louvre, on loan to Warsaw
Mallawi Museum, Egypt
Manitoba Museum of Fine Arts
McClung Museum, University of Tennessee Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University
Musee Calvet, Avignon
Musee d'art et histoire, Geneva
Musees Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire a Bruxelles
Museo Archeologico Nazionale / Museo Egizio
Museo Arqueologico Nacional
Museu Nacional de Arqueologia
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Museum of Mummufication, Luxor, Egypt
Naprstak Museum, Prague
National Museum of Antiquities, Leiden
National Museum of Ireland
Natural History Museum, Tring
NMSI
Oriental Institute, University of Chicago
Pelizaeus Museum
Petrie Museum
Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology
Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery
Podlipanske Moseum Zesky Brod, District Kolin
Private Collection
Rosicrucian Museum, San Jose
Royal Ontario Museum
Siegfried H. Horn Archaeological Museum
Smithsonian
Spurlock Museum, Illinois
Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council
Town Museum, Moravska Trebova, District Suitavy
Ulster Museum
University Museum, University of Pennsylvania
University of Aberdeen
University of Manchester, Manchester Museum
University of Memphis
Vienna
Yale Peabody Museum

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