Wooden mummy label
During the Graeco-Roman Period bodies were regularly transported from the home to the cemetery, and, if the person died away from home, back to their village, and they were usually identified with mummy labels such as this one. The labels were made from wood or stone and often inscribed with a short text in Greek or demotic giving details such as name, age and home-town, for the poor it seems the labels replaced traditional stelae. This label has an ink d...rawing of the god Anubis, seated on a pedestal with a key around his neck and a burning torch before him.
During the Graeco-Roman Period bodies were regularly transported from the home to the cemetery, and, if the person died away from home, back to their village, and they were usually identified with mummy labels such as this one. The labels were made from wood or stone and often inscribed with a short text in Greek or demotic giving details such as name, age and home-town, for the poor it seems the labels replaced traditional stelae. This label has an ink d...rawing of the god Anubis, seated on a pedestal with a key around his neck and a burning torch before him.
Present location LIVERPOOL MUSEUM [03/061] LIVERPOOL
Inventory number 56.20.486a
Dating GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
Archaeological Site UNKNOWN
Category MUMMY LABEL
Material WOOD
Technique INCISED; PAINTED
Height 15.5 cm
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Bibliography•Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley., Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in Liverpool Museum., 1995., 82; pl.131.
Inventory number 56.20.486a
Dating GRAECO-ROMAN PERIOD
Archaeological Site UNKNOWN
Category MUMMY LABEL
Material WOOD
Technique INCISED; PAINTED
Height 15.5 cm
globalegyptianmuseum
Bibliography•Piotr Bienkowski and Angela Tooley., Gifts of The Nile: Ancient Egyptian Arts and Crafts in Liverpool Museum., 1995., 82; pl.131.
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