| Artefact ID | 1184 |
| TM ID | TM 120472 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 23 (al-Šayḫ ʿIbāda) | Class | Funerary element, Textual |
| Material | Wood |
| Writing medium | Inscription, Label, Tablet |
| Text content | Documentary, Subliterary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | IGChrEg 686: Mummy label (?) Six lines of an inscription on wood reading: "Elias, son of Kyrillos, in Antinoopolis". Initial crux ansata before Description and measurements are not given in ed. pr. where it is referred to as mummy label in the title (but a note indicates that it could also be funerary stela). |
| Selection criteria | Christian onomastics, Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 499 |
| Dating criteria | No date is given in ed. pr. According to Delattre and Worp 2012: 93, if it is indeed a mummy label, the date would be 4th c.; if it is a stela, it could be later. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | Nécropole antique d'Antinooupolis, 1899-1900 (ed. pr.). |
| Accession number | Paris, Louvre, location unknown (see Calament 2005: I, p. 264; II, p. 368, according to Delattre and Worp 2012: 93). |
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