dog mummy / Remains (Human) / Linen
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.08.8821
- Object Name
- dog mummy
- Lot
- Tano, Phocion
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Egyptian funerary artifacts
- Weight
- N/A
- Pierced
- no
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Fake dog mummy, actually human child bones shaped like dog mummy
- "Dog" mummy that contains a miscellaneous jumble of human child bones, possibly from more than one individual. Linen, pitch, human bones; 57.1 cm l., 16.5 cm w. (Death Dogs, Wilfong).
- Earliest Date
- 332 BCE
- Latest Date
- 30 BCE
- Verbatim Date
- 332 - 30 BC
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Production Site
- site
- Countermark
- no
- Exhibition Title
- Animals in the Kelsey: An Undergraduate Exhibit of Animals in the Ancient World
- Death Dogs: The Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt (exhibit)
- Exhibition Curator
- Alcock, Susan
- Wilfong, Terry
- Exhibition Year
- 2015
- Publication Title
- Death Dogs: The Jackal Gods of Ancient Egypt
- Publication Author
- Wilfong, T.G.
- Publication Year
- 2015
- Class Title
- The Science of Skeletons
- Fake! Fraudulent Production in the Visual Arts, Literature, and Historical Documents
- Frauds and Fantastic Claims in Archaeology
- Frauds and Fantastic Claims in Archaeology: Issues in Race and Ethnicity
- Frauds and Fantastic Claims in Archaeology: Issues in Race and Ethnicity (W18)
- The History of Disaster (F2018)
- Fakes and Forgeries (F2018)
- Frauds and Fantastic Claims in Archaeology: Issues in Race and Ethnicity (F2018)
- What is a Human? Nature and Knowledge Before Modernity (W2019)
- Fake! Fraudulent Production in the Visual Arts, Literature, and Historical Documents (W2019)
- Anthropology and Middle East Studies Workshop
- Frauds and Fantastic Claims in Archaeology: Issues in Race and Ethnicity (F2019)
- Class Instructor
- Beck, Jess
- Beckman, Gary
- Young, Lisa
- Northrop, Douglas
- Brusati, Celeste
- Neis, Rafe
- Ikram, Salima
- Class Department
- Anthropology
- Near Eastern Studies
- ANTHRARC
- HISTORY
- HISTART
- ANTHRARCH
- MIDEAST
- Class Number
- 296
- 295.001
- 285.001
- 215
- 393.001
- 497.003
- 295.002
- Class Year
- 2015
- 2016
- 2017
- 2018
- 2019
- Class Semester
- Summer
- Winter
- Fall
- Type Category
- Artifact
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.08.8821
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.08.8821/dsc_4266.jpg
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- Full citation
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"dog mummy; Remains (Human); Linen." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.08.8821/dsc_4266.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.
