Mummified animal, possibly a dog.

Collection type: Object
Description: Mummified animal, possibly a dog.
Long description: Mummified animal, possibly that of a dog. The bandages are intricate in their wrapping and seem to be secure.
Geographical reference: Egypt
Africa > Northern Africa > Egypt
Person: Field collector Unknown Collector; PRM source Oxford University Museum of Natural History; PRM source Department of Comparative Anatomy, Oxford University Museum of Natural History
Date / Period: Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian
Date collected: By 1912
Acquisition information: Transferred: 1912
Materials and processes: Material Animal, Material Dog Bone Animal, Process Mummified
Dimensions: Length: max 295 mm, Width: max 126 mm, Depth: max 88 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1912.94.1
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]

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