Tablet

Description

Modern copy of a wooden mummy label, inscribed on one side in demotic and on the other in Greek characters "Apollonios the younger and Besa the elder, sons of their mother Thaminis; the one a priest, the other a merchant": Egypt, 19th Century, c. AD 1800-1900

Museum reference

A.1921.896

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Tablet

Production information

Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

19th century

Style / Culture

Roman Period, Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Wood

Collection place(s)

Akhmim, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Apollonios
Besa
Thaminis

References

Clarysse, M., Maitland, M., and Worp, K. A. 2014. 'Mummy Labels from Graeco-Roman Egypt in National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh' in Chronique d’Egypte 89/178, p. 360-361, 371 (figs. 2 and 3)