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. The head and beak are covered by a slightly coarse bandage that has a dark resinous substance painted over it. The wrappings from the beak down take the form of a herringbone pattern with insets. The herringbone pattern is augmented by a series of small overlapping horizontal bandages that create a triangular pattern. The bandage colours are varied. The final undyed perimeter bandage that extends over the edge of the bird to the dorsal side of the mummy is large and covers the bottom very tidily. CT scans show an incomplete skeleton of an adult ibis. The body position does not conform to the position implied by the wrappings as the body is rotated about 60° inside the bandages with respect to a vertical plane. The bird is damaged, and parts of the head, beak, and feet are missing. Fragments of the beak are between the lower limbs. This suggests that it was either poorly embalmed, or is a found rather than farmed bird, which had already started to decay before arriving at the embalmers. It might also be an amalgam of parts of more than one ibis that became detached during the mummification and were gathered to form an ibis package. The head of the mummy is made from folded bandages.
