1884.57.5

Collection type

Object

Description

Mummified cat, wrapped in textile.

Geographical reference

Egypt

Africa > Northern Africa > Egypt

Person

Maker Unknown Maker

Field collector Unknown Collector

PRM source Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers founding collection

Date / Period

Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian

Date collected

?By 1878

Acquisition information

Donated: 1884

Materials and processes

Material Cat Bone Animal, Material Textile, Process Bound, Process Mummified, Process Woven

Dimensions

Length: max 370 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1884.57.5 PR Cat other PR nos: 2493

Research and responses

See 'Complex Organic Chemical Balms of Pharaonic Animal Mummies', by Stephen Buckley et al, in Nature, Vol. 431 (September 2004). (Copy in RDF; Researchers: Buckley.) [ZM 28/09/2006; JC 17 8 2011]

Associated publications

Illustrated in colour as Figure 6.3 on page 94 of 'Egypt and Sudan: old Kingdom to Late Period', by Elizabeth Frood, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 90-114. Caption (same page): 'Figure 6.3 (right) Ancient Egyptian mummified cat from the Pitt Rivers Museum founding collection (PRM Accession Number 1884.57.5). Animal mummies were particularly a feature of religious practice from Late Period Egypt (c. 715-332 BCE) through to Roman times when millions were manufactured for sale as votive offerings'. [MJD 27/05/2014]

Search terms: Religion, Death, Animalia, Mummy, Animal Part, Mummy Wrapping