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Artefact ID1189
TM IDTM 32554
Findspot (DEChriM ID)-   ()
ClassFunerary element, Textual
MaterialWood
Writing mediumLabel
Text contentDocumentary, Subliterary
LanguageGreek
Description

SB XII 10814; C.Étiq.Mom. 1604: Mummy label

Double wooden tabula ansata with handle, rounded. A single cord-hole drilled equidistant from the sides. 17.5 x 5.5 cm.

The text runs on two lines, along the fibres of the wood: "Thatre, lived 75 years", and is followed, on the 3rd line, by a simple cross, a stylized fish and a staurogram.

The other side is blank.

Selection criteriaChristian symbols/gestures/isopsephy
Date from300
Date to399
Dating criteria

Palaeography.

Absolute/relative dateRelative date
Archaeological context

Gift of W. Greenwell.

Accession number

Oxford, Ashmolean Museum 1887-3401

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Editio princeps

• Shelton, John. 1970. "Mummy Tags from  the  Ashmolean  Museum, Oxford." Chronique d'Egypte 45, 334-352, no. 2 (p. 337-338).

Additional bibliography

• Boyaval, Bernard. 1976. Corpus des étiquettes de momies grecques. Villeneuve-d'Ascq, no. 1604.

Authors
Valérie Schram, 2021
Suggested citation
Valérie Schram, 2021, "Artefact ID 1189", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1189
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