IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 49281 accession number: E.75.1891 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: mummy label. These tags with name, parentage, titles, age, written in demotic Egyptian and Greek, were attached to the deceased. Here, they were attached to women. Tags were used to identify bodies because cemeteries were often some distance from the home of the deceased. title: mummy label LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Antiquities STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/49281 TECHNIQUES ---------- inscribed CATEGORIES ------ category: written document DATING ------ creation date: 3001 - 200 creation date earliest: 3001 creation date latest: 200 culture: Middle Roman DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 4.4 CITATIONS -------- Mummy labels and ghost-names The Greek Inscriptions in the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/E_75_1891_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/mid_E_75_1891_281_29.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/E_75_1891_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/preview_E_75_1891_281_29.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/E_75_1891_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/mid_E_75_1891_282_29.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/E_75_1891_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/ant/ant7/preview_E_75_1891_282_29.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels