Mummy label

Description

Mummy-label of blue-green faience with a perforated lug at each end, inscribed in Greek on one side for Berenike, and a scene showing Anubis enbalming Osiris in the company of Isis and Nephthys on the other: Ancient Egyptian, Roman Period, 30 BC - 200 AD

Museum reference

A.1952.204

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Mummy label

Production information

Unknown
Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

Roman Period

Style / Culture

Ancient Egyptian

Materials

Faience

Physical description

Glazed composition

Collection place(s)

Egypt, Northern Africa

Associations

Depicted: Anubis
Depicted: Nephthys
Depicted: Isis

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

• The Tomb

• Egyptian Gallery, 2003 - 2008 (2003 - 2008)
  Royal Scottish Museum

• Ancient Egypt (29 Jul 2011)
  National Museum of Scotland

References

Maitland, Margaret. 2017. The Tomb: Ancient Egyptian Burial. Edinburgh: NMS, p. 12

Martín Hernández, Raquel. 2018, 'Faience Mummy Labels Written in Greek', Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 208, pp.193-202.

On display

national museum of scotland »
level 5 »
world cultures, ancient egypt rediscovered