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Mummy Label with Drawing of a Mummylate Ptolemaic - early Roman Period (100 BCE - 100 CE), perhaps reign of Augustus (30 BCE - 41 CE)

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Small cream-colored tablet with a rounded top and suspension hole, painted with a red figure and ancient script in terracotta pigment

Unknown, Mummy Label with Drawing of a Mummy, late Ptolemaic - early Roman Period (100 BCE - 100 CE), perhaps reign of Augustus (30 BCE - 41 CE), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Robert Miller and Marilyn Miller Deluca, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Title
Mummy Label with Drawing of a Mummy
Place Made
Egypt
Date Made
late Ptolemaic - early Roman Period (100 BCE - 100 CE), perhaps reign of Augustus (30 BCE - 41 CE)
Medium
Limestone
Dimensions
2 x 1 1/2 in. (5.08 x 3.81 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Robert Miller and Marilyn Miller Deluca
Accession Number
M.80.199.162
Classification
Tablets
Collecting Area
Egyptian Art
Selected 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)