Mummy label
- Accession Number
- W548
- Current Location
- House of Death (ground floor), Mummification case
- Object Type
- Written document, Mummy label
- Periods
- Graeco-Roman Period to Late Roman Period
- Dynasties
- First century CE/AD to Fourth century CE/AD
- Material
- Wood
- Provenance
- Egypt, Akhmim
- Number of Elements
- 1
- Measurements
- Height: 43mm | Width Length 97mm | Depth: 9mm
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- Description
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A mummy label in shape of a tabula ansata. There are two lines of writing, and two holes, one in each side. It is possibly from Akhmim(?). It records the death of Ammonari(on), aged twenty-five years. Such labels were put on the bodies of the dead who had died away from home by the transporters in order to facilitate identification. They were used in the Graeco-Roman Period. This example was purchased by Wellcome from the MacGregor collection in 1922.
- Bibliography
-
Mueller, Dieter 1973. Three mummy labels in the Swansea Wellcome Collection. Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 59, 175–180. [178–179, pl. XLII] www.trismegistos.org/text/24935
- Wellcome Number
- 15396 (W)
- Other Identity
- 147 (?) | W540 (This number appear in Gee and Gill Journal of Hellenic Studies 1996, 261)
- Previous Owners
- Rev. William MacGregor (1848–1937) | Sir Henry Solomon Wellcome (1853–1936)
- Acquisition
- Long-term loan, The Wellcome Trust (15 Feb 1971)
- Inscription
-
(1) Ἀμμω- (2) ναρι*, (ἐτῶν) κε. Ammonari(on), 25 years years (old)
- Language
- Greek
- Script
- Greek
- Personal Name
- Ammonarion (Ἀμμωνάριον)
