Artefact ID | 1189 |
TM ID | TM 32554 |
Findspot (DEChriM ID) | - () | Class | Funerary element, Textual |
Material | Wood |
Writing medium | Label |
Text content | Documentary, Subliterary |
Language | Greek |
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 criteria | Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy |
Date from | 300 |
Date to | 399 |
Dating criteria | Palaeography. |
Absolute/relative date | Relative date |
Archaeological context | Gift of W. Greenwell. |
Accession number | Oxford, Ashmolean Museum 1887-3401 |