Ibis Head
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Object Label
This bronze ibis head weighs three Egyptian deben (or 9½ ounces), a large expense for the person who commissioned the animal mummy it once decorated.
Caption
Ibis Head, 664–30 B.C.E.. Bronze, 4 x 4 1/2 x 7/8 in. (10.2 x 11.4 x 2.2 cm) 9.9 oz. (0.28kg). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.580.156. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum (Gavin Ashworth, photographer))
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Title
Ibis Head
Date
664–30 B.C.E.
Dynasty
Dynasty 26, or later
Period
Late Period to Ptolemaic Period
Geography
Place made: Egypt
Medium
Bronze
Classification
Dimensions
4 x 4 1/2 x 7/8 in. (10.2 x 11.4 x 2.2 cm) 9.9 oz. (0.28kg)
Credit Line
Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour
Accession Number
16.580.156
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