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Dog mummy

The ovoid jar contains some fragments of basketry/matting, texiles, skin, fur and disarticulated bones of a canine. The study of this find was particularly complex due to the confusing overlap of material inside the vase. The fur was yellowish, a common colour of Egyptian ‘baladi’ dogs. Some areas of the pelt are more brown, probably was this a piebald dog. It seems as if the dog was eviscerated, desiccated with natron, but it does not seem as it were anointed with oils. Inside is a juvenile dog, between six and nine months,

Suppl. 17016/02
Organic animal+plant fiber / Linen
2870–2490 BCE
Early Dynastic Period – Old Kingdom
Gebelein
Excavation Ernesto Schiaparelli, 1923
Not on display
Museo Egizio