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Description : Late Period-Ptolemaic Period, 664-30 BC. A recumbent ibis, with carved wooden body, wings folded back against the body, covered in gesso and gilt, separately-cast bronze legs, rear and head, legs folded under the body with tangs below the talons and sinuous neck with long curved beak, faint cross hatching to the legs and rear tail plume, mounted on a custom-made wooden stand. Cf. Los Angeles County Museum, AC1992.152.58 for type. 745 grams total, 23cm (9). Property of a London gentleman, formerly in the Baptiste family collection in Paris since circa 1900. In Ancient Egypt, the ibis was considered as an incarnation of Thoth, the god of writing and wisdom and the guide of the deceased to the underworld. The sacred bird was bred, nurtured in life and mummified after death, and is depicted in many forms in Egyptian art. In the Late Period, the ibis was frequently found as a votive figure in burial grounds, such as those at Hermopolis Magna and Abydos, and rendered in painted wood and gold, as here. Many of these wooden and bronze examples have been found interred in sacred hypogea alongside mummified ibises. One such figure in the Brooklyn Museum (accession number 49.48) contains a mummified ibis within its body, which serves as a coffin.
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