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Collections

Mummy Label with Degraded Demotic Inscriptionlate Ptolemaic Period - early Roman Period (100 BCE - 100 CE)

Not on view
Small bone or ivory tablet with an arched top and drilled suspension hole, inscribed with multiple lines of cursive script in a non-Latin alphabet, aged to cream and rust-brown tones
Title
Mummy Label with Degraded Demotic Inscription
Place Made
Egypt
Date Made
late Ptolemaic Period - early Roman Period (100 BCE - 100 CE)
Medium
limestone
Dimensions
3 1/8 x 2 1/2 in. (7.9 x 6.4 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Robert Miller and Marilyn Miller Deluca
Accession Number
M.80.199.165
Classification
Tablets
Collecting Area
Egyptian Art
Selected Bibliography
  • Bresciani, E. "Etichette di Mummia in Calcare da Dendera Nella Collezione Michaelidis." Studi Classici e Orientali X: 209-213 (1961)