猫的神圣动物木乃伊 - 美国大都会艺术博物馆展品查阅

品名（中）	猫的神圣动物木乃伊
品名（英）	Sacred animal mummy of a cat
入馆年号	1915年，15.6.50
策展部门	埃及艺术（Egyptian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 400 - 公元 100
创作地区	来自于: 埃及（From: Egypt）
分类
尺寸	高 34.4 厘米 (13 9/16 英寸); 宽 9.5 厘米 (3 3/4 英寸); 深 5.6 厘米 (2 3/16 英寸)
介绍（中）	动物崇拜埃及人认为某些个体动物是神的活生生的化身，例如自古以来的阿庇斯公牛。这些人在死后被及时制成木乃伊，并被埋葬，以获得永生，然后被另一个活着的人所取代。在公元前一千年，许多与某些神有关的动物被专门饲养在寺庙区域，作为该神的同时化身，然后被大规模木乃伊化，并存放在地下墓穴中，以获得永生。我们不容易理解这些倍数的古老观念、这一方向的实践演变以及实践中的变化。但在地下墓穴和其他地方发现的数十万具精心制作的动物木乃伊证明了其古老的共鸣动物木乃伊对动物木乃伊的研究表明，在大型动物墓地发现的大多数木乃伊都是为了使用而被故意杀害的成年前木乃伊。有些木乃伊实际上是"替代品"木乃伊，只有几块骨头或羽毛，或者可能只有棍子或沙子最近，在与研究专家协商后，对博物馆的动物木乃伊及其x光片进行了一次审查，并揭示了一些有趣的点。这具木乃伊包裹在由两种略微不同的米色亚麻布制成的棋盘图案中；包裹里有一具保存完好的猫骨架，它的脖子已经断了。
介绍（英）	Animal cults The Egyptians considered certain individual animals to be living manifestations of a god, such as, since earliest times, the Apis bull . Those individuals were duly mummifed when they died and buried for eternal life, then replaced by another single living manifestation. During the first millennium BC, many multiples of animals associated with certain gods were specially raised in temple precincts as simultaneous avatars of that god and then mummified in large contingents and deposited in catacombs for eternal life. The ancient perception of these multiples, the evolution of the practice in this direction, and variations within the practice are not easily accessible to us. But the hundreds of thousands of often elaborately prepared animal mummies found in catacombs and other locales testify to its ancient resonance. Animal mummies Research on animal mummies has shown that the majority of mummies found at the large animal cemetery sites are pre-adults who were purposely killed for use. Some of the mummies are actually ‘substitute’ mummies containing only a few bones or feathers or possibly just sticks or sand. Recently a review of the museum's animal mummies and their x-rays was conducted in consultation with an expert in their study, and brought to light a number of interesting points.This mummy is wrapped in a checkerboard pattern created by two slightly different shades of beige linen; inside the bundle is a perfectly preserved skeleton of a cat just reaching maturity, whose neck had been broken.