Mummy label

Description

Mummy-label of wood with a rounded top and central hole, inscribed with one line of hieratic in black ink naming Sathori, a King's Daughter: Ancient Egyptian, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, excavated by A.H. Rhind, New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, c.1550-1295 BC

Museum reference

A.1956.160

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Mummy label

Production information

Unknown
Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

New Kingdom
18th Dynasty

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Collection place(s)

Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Thebes, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Excavator: Rhind, Alexander Henry, 1833 - 1863
Princess Sit-Hori
Thutmose
Amenhotep III

Exhibitions

• The Tomb

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

RHIND, A H 1862. Thebes: its Tombs and their Tenants Ancient and Present (London: Longman, Green, Longman & Roberts), pp.84-87

B Porter & R B Moss. Topographical Bibliography of Ancient Egyptian Hieroglyphic Texts, Reliefs and Paintings (Oxford: Clarendon Press/Griffith Institute), I/2, The Theban Necropolis2 Part 2 (1964), p.671

Dodson, A., Janssen, J.J., ‘A Theban Tomb and Its Tenants’ in The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology, Vol.75, 1898, pp.125-138, pl. X-XI