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品名（中）	绳
品名（英）	Rope
入馆年号	1904年，04.2.813
策展部门	埃及艺术（Egyptian Art）
创作者
创作年份	公元前 30 - 公元 364
创作地区	来自于: 埃及（From: Egypt）
分类
尺寸	various
介绍（中）	这根绳子曾经紧紧地缠绕在一具鳄鱼的木乃伊上。神圣动物一直出现在古埃及宗教中，但大约从7世纪开始，神圣动物崇拜现象迅速发展。在一些寺庙中，一种神圣的动物充当神的活化身，在其他寺庙中，生物物种被保存在寺庙范围内，还有寺庙和圣所附属于神圣动物的墓地。今天博物馆中的大多数动物木乃伊都来自数十万或更多的动物木乃伊，出售给那些希望向相关的神圣动物或神捐款以引起神注意的人，也许是出于特定目的，如梦境解释或生育愿望，也许是为了更好的永生。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成虫前的，他们被故意杀死用作捐赠。一些木乃伊实际上是"替代"木乃伊，只包含几根骨头或羽毛，或者可能只是棍棒或沙子。
介绍（英）	This rope was once tightly drawn around a mummy of a crocodile. Sacred animals had always figured in ancient Egyptian religion, but beginning about the 7th century the phenomenon of sacred animal cults burgeoned remarkably. In some temples a single sacred animal acted as the living incarnation of a god, in others living species were kept within the temple precincts, and there were also temples and sanctuaries attached to the burial places of sacred animals. Most of the animal mummies in museums today are from among the hundreds of thousands or more made for sale to those wishing to make donations to a relevant divine animal or god in order to bring themselves to the god’s attention, perhaps for a specific purpose like a dream interpretation or a wish for fertility, perhaps for a better eternal life. 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 as donations. Some of the mummies are actually ‘substitute’ mummies containing only a few bones or feathers or possibly just sticks or sand.