| Artefact ID | 1186 |
| TM ID | TM 32380 |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Funerary element, Textual |
| Material | Wood |
| Writing medium | Inscription, Label, Tablet |
| Text content | Documentary, Subliterary |
| Language | Greek |
| Description | P. Haun. II 44 Incised wooden label measuring 24 x 10,3 c, cut to a rectangular shape with one handle Through the handle a string-hole is drilled. A 9 lines inscription is placed so that it is seen correctly when the tablet is held like a hand-mirror. The letters are coarse capitals. Before incision the letters were drawn in ink. The inscription commemorates Merkourios, using the ekoimethe formula and an indiction date. There is a cross before the first line and a cross at the end. According to the ed., the classification of the object presents a problem, since it is an intermediary form between a mummy label and a tabula ansata. The shape and the string-hole point to its being a mummy-label, but the contents are those of a funerary stele. Although Boyaval 1996: 77-78 would rather interpret it as a mummy label, giving a parallel for the content in the Louvre mummy label of Artemidora (TM 80049 / T.Mom.Louvre 1115), Delattre and Worp 2012: 91-92 consider that the content and (not standard) measurements point to a substitute for a funerary stela. About the expression l. 2-4 (sc. ἠ ψυχή) see Sijpesteijn 1982 (= BL VIII 148). |
| Selection criteria | Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy |
| Date from | 300 |
| Date to | 499 |
| Dating criteria | Delattre and Worp 2012: 93. |
| Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
| Archaeological context | - |
| Accession number | Copenhagen, Carlsberg Papyrus Collection, P.Haun. without number. Note that the tablet was originally entered in the collection as Coptic (ed. pr.). |
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