SB 1 4285, SB 1 5622, SB 24 16089, Allen 1, C.Étiq.Mom. 360

Edition number

Institution:

Metropolitan Museum

City_country:

New York, USA

Inventory number:

96.9.237, 1235

Edition number:

SB 1 4285, SB 1 5622, SB 24 16089, Allen 1, C.Étiq.Mom. 360

TM number:

40577

Period:

Unknown

Date:

III CE

Dating crit:

Provenance:

Thebes

Prov crit:

Acquisition:

This label belonged to the Abbot Collection, at the New York Historical Society See Goodspeed (1905) 177-8.

Preservation:

Complete

Material:

Wood

Material sub_type:

Ink:

Black?

Format:

Tabula ansata

Corners of the tabula:

Sharp

Number of ears:

Corners of the ears:

Rounded

Number of holes:

Hole position:

Top

State of preservation:

Good

Special features:

There is a notch on each side near the top

Dimensions of the label:

10.8 x 7.3

Dimensions of the scripture:

Dimensions of the margin:

Other dimensions:

Type:

Sub_type:

Text format:

Painted

Has writing on both sides:

Language:

Greek

Type of script:

Uncial letters

Orientation:

Crosswise

Has illustration:

Type of illustration:

Text:

Πλῆνι[ς] ἐτῶν Lξ'

Translation:

Plenis lived 60 years

Commentary:

Publication:

Catalogue:

Bibliography:

E. Goodspeed, Greek documents in the Museum of the New York Historial Society, Mélanges Nicole. Recueil de mémoires de philologie classique et d'archéologie offerts à Jules Nicole, professeur à l'Université de Genève à l'occasion du xxxe anniversaire de son professorat. Genève, 1905, 177-191. esp 178, U. Wilcken, Holztafeln, Archiv für Papyrusforschung 4 (1908): 250-255. esp. 250, H. F. Allen, Five Greek Mummy-Labels in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, American Journal of Philology 34, 2 (1913): 194-197, S. P. Vleeming, Some Mummy Labels in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in W. Clarysse, A. Schoors, H. Willems (eds.), Egyptian Religion. The Last Thousand Years. Studies Dedicated to the Memory of Jan Quaegebeur. Part 1, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 84 (1998): 477-515. esp. 499 and 513

URL:

https://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-9475%281913%2934%3A2%3C194%3AFGMITM%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H

Additional information:

Plate in H. F. Allen, Five Greek Mummy-Labels in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, American Journal of Philology 34, 2 (1913)

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