Mummy label

Description

Mummy-label or tablet in painted wood, showing a woman wearing socks and jewellery, sitting on a stool giving birth on one side and on the other, a man, possibly a doctor, seated in a high-back chair holding an instrument (possibly shears), excavated by Petrie: Ancient Egyptian, Hawara, Middle Egypt, Roman Period, c100-140 AD

Museum reference

A.1911.210.4 G

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Mummy label, Tablet

Production information

Unknown
Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

Roman Period

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Wood, Paint

Collection place(s)

Hawara, Middle Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Excavator: Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Professor Sir, 1853 - 1942
British School of Archaeology in Egypt

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Egyptian Mummies: Immortality in the Land of the Pharaohs (06 Oct 2007 - 24 Mar 2008)
  Landesmuseum Württenberg

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

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

References

Petrie: 'Roman Portraits' p 20

Bowman, A.K., Egypt After the Pharaohs (London 1996), 111, fig. 65

Walker S., Bierbrier M., ANCIENT FACES : Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, (London: British Museum Press), 1997, cat. 61, p.82

S. Walker, M. Bierbrier, Ancient Faces n. 1, p. 210-214, nos 304-336.

Dasen, Veronique, "La petite fille et le médecin. Autour d’une étiquette de momie d’Egypte romaine" in V. Boudon-Millot, V. Dasen, B. Maire (éds), Femmes en médecine. En l’honneur de D. Gourevitch, Paris, Medica, 2008, 39-59. Reprinted as a chapter in Le sourire d'Omphale. Maternité et petite enfance dans l'Antiquité, Rennes, 2015.

On display

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