IDENTIFIERS
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id:	53660
accession number:	E.95.1937

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 7 June 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: ba bird. The Ancient Egyptians believed that the human soul was made up of different elements. The Ba was closely connected to the personality and after death stayed close to the deceased. The different parts of the soul were reunited in the afterlife to allow the person to carry on 'living'. The ba bird is typically shown as a winged bird with a human head.
title:	burial

LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Antiquities
collection:	Ricketts and Shannon Collection
creditline: The Ricketts and Shannon Collection. Bequeathed by Charles Shannon, 1937

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/53660





TECHNIQUES
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gilded
carved

CATEGORIES
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category: to be identified

DATING
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creation date:	332 - 30
creation date earliest:	332
creation date latest:	30
culture:	Ptolemaic Period


DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 8.4



IMAGES

surrogate: large
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/E_95_1937_281_29.jpg
height: 570 pixels
width: 760 pixels

surrogate: mid
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/mid_E_95_1937_281_29.jpg
height: 375 pixels
width: 500 pixels

surrogate: original
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/E_95_1937_281_29.jpg
height: 570 pixels
width: 760 pixels

surrogate: preview
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/preview_E_95_1937_281_29.jpg
height: 188 pixels
width: 250 pixels


surrogate: large
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/E_95_1937_282_29.jpg
height: 570 pixels
width: 760 pixels

surrogate: mid
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/mid_E_95_1937_282_29.jpg
height: 375 pixels
width: 500 pixels

surrogate: original
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/E_95_1937_282_29.jpg
height: 570 pixels
width: 760 pixels

surrogate: preview
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/preview_E_95_1937_282_29.jpg
height: 188 pixels
width: 250 pixels