Mummy Label with Demotic and Greek Inscription

Enlarge My gallery Comment Tag Share Download Image*
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/collections.lacma.org-images/remote_images/ma-50464-O3.jpg?1F445lvW3lL7VnYq0lswmdN8DKXUUfzx
View comments
No comments have been posted yet.
Add a comment
Please log in to add comments.
Enter your LACMA Collections username.
Enter the password that accompanies your username.
New to our collections website? Sign up to create an account and start saving your favorites. Please note that this account is not the same as the MyLACMA account you may have for ticketing and membership transactions.
Download powerpoint quality jpeg Download publication quality tiff
Current tags
This item has not been tagged yet.
Please log in to add tags.
Enter your LACMA Collections username.
Enter the password that accompanies your username.
New to our collections website? Sign up to create an account and start saving your favorites. Please note that this account is not the same as the MyLACMA account you may have for ticketing and membership transactions.
* Nearly 20,000 images of artworks the museum believes to be in the public domain are available to download on this site. Other images may be protected by copyright and other intellectual property rights. By using any of these images you agree to LACMA's Terms of Use.

Mummy Label with Demotic and Greek Inscription

Egypt, late Ptolemaic - early Roman Period (100 BCE - 100 CE), perhaps reign of Augustus (30 BCE - 41 CE)
Tablets
Limestone
2 7/16 x 1 11/16 in. (6.19 x 4.28 cm)
Gift of Robert Miller and Marilyn Miller Deluca (M.80.199.160)
Egyptian Art
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Petrie, W. F. "Denderah 1898." Egyptian Exploration Fund Series 17: (1900)
  • Bresciani, E. "Etichette di Mummia in Calcare da Dendera Nella Collezione Michaelidis." Studi Classici e Orientali X: 209-213 (1961)