Metropolitan Museum
New York, USA
96.9.237, 1235
SB 1 4285, SB 1 5622, SB 24 16089, Allen 1, C.Étiq.Mom. 360
40577
Unknown
III CE
Thebes
This label belonged to the Abbot Collection, at the New York Historical Society See Goodspeed (1905) 177-8.
Complete
Wood
Black?
Tabula ansata
Sharp
1
Rounded
1
Top
Good
There is a notch on each side near the top
10.8 x 7.3
Painted
No
Greek
Uncial letters
Crosswise
No
Plenis lived 60 years
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
Plate in H. F. Allen, Five Greek Mummy-Labels in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, American Journal of Philology 34, 2 (1913)