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Artefact ID1187
TM IDTM 32078
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassFunerary element, Textual
MaterialWood
Writing mediumLabel
Text contentDocumentary, Subliterary
LanguageGreek
Description

SB I 1190, T.Möller 116, C.Étiq.Mom. 104: Mummy label of Taesis

Wooden label (15 x 3,8 cm), with a hole. Written along the long sides, two lines in black ink: "Taesis lived twenty-eight years, 28. She went into the light".

Selection criteriaChristian terms/formulas/concepts
Date from200
Date to325
Dating criteria

Palaeographically dated to the 3rd or early 4th c. in Boyaval 1980: 168.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Bought in 1894 in Strasbourg to Forrer

Accession number

Berlin, Staatliche Museen, Ägyptisches Museum und Papyrussammlung ÄM 11820

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Krebs, Friedrich. 1894. "Griechische Mumienetikette aus Ägypten", Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 32, no. 17.

Additional bibliography

• Boyaval, Bernard. 1980. "Les étiquettes de momie chrétiennes en langue grecque." Bulletin de l'Institut français d'archéologie orientale 80,  167-169.

• Boyaval, Bernard. 1976. Corpus des étiquettes de momies grecques. Villeneuve-d'Ascq, no. 104.

• Möller, Georg. 1913. Demotische Texte aus den Königlichen Museen zu Berlin, I, Mumienschielder. Leipzig, no. 116.

• Macquarie University. 2005. "Papyri from the Rise of Christianity in Egypt", no. 48.

• Schmidt, Carl. 1894. "Ein altchristliches Mumienetikett nebst Bemerkungen über das Begräbnisswesen der Kopten", Zeitschrift für Ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde  32, 61.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1187", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1187
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