Tablet

Description

Wooden mummy-label inscribed on both sides in demotic (and some hieratic) characters, naming "Peteminis son of Zminis": Ancient Egyptian, Akhmim, Upper Egypt, Roman Period, c. AD 200-300

Museum reference

A.1921.897 A

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Tablet

Production information

Akhmim, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

3rd century

Style / Culture

Roman Period, Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Wood

Collection place(s)

Akhmim, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

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. 365-6, 373 (figs. 10 and 11)