An ibis mummy wrapped to show the animal lying on its back with the beak resting on its ventral side and the legs drawn up to the body as if it were seated. This mummy has the most elaborate polychrome coffered pattern of the ibises from Asyut in the Museo Egizio. The bird is wrapped in three columns of coffered bandages, each coffer made of four colours. The beak is outlined by an elongated coffer. Some of the bandages look as if they might have been dyed pink, but this is difficult to determine. The head and most of the beak area have lost their outermost bandages, revealing the rather haphazard bandaging beneath, held in place by linen threads. Traces of resinous material can be seen on the mummy. The dorsal side has no final covering: the linen bandages spiralling around the ibis are visible, with the threads holding them in place and reinforcing the strength of the wrapping. CT scans show a complete skeleton of a juvenile ibis. The bird is positioned on its back, with the head folded over the sternum, wings folded against the sides of the body, neck curved in a S and the legs flexed toward the body.
