Context (Display)
Old display label found with object reads: 'Greek mummy ticket of Panebteichus. 1st Cent. A.D.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Wooden mummy ticket with Demotic inscription.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Amendments / updates)
The original accession register entry for this object only listed one mummy label, 'with Demotic inscription', but it was at some later point amended to include a second 'mummy ticket' with a Greek inscription, which became Z 17978 B. However, this was done in error: the second 'mummy ticket' with Greek inscription matches the accession register entry for Z 46398 and was found marked with that idno. Therefore this record for Z 17978 has been amended to include only one mummy label, as it was originally entered in the accession register, by removing 'A-B', changing the description from that of the catalogue card to the original accession register entry, and changing the Num field from 2 to 1.
Event Date 10/2/2014
Author: Imogen Gunn

Description (Physical description)
Wooden mummy label with rectangular body and a circular top, which has been pierced for suspension. The bottom left corner is also pierced; the bottom right corner is missing but appears to have once been pierced. Recto: a deeply incised Greek inscription. Verso: 'Apollo' written in Demotic, in very faded ink.
Event Date 5/6/2014
Author: maa

Context (Analysis)
Dr Fracois Gaudard, Co-Editor of the Mummy Label Database, examined images of the object in May 2015 and notes that 'the label is indeed from the Roman period and probably from the 1st century AD, but it could also possibly be from the 2nd century AD'. He later added that 'as for the inscription on the recto, it is ink for sure, very faded ink. It is one of the names of the deceased: "Apollo", written horizontally in Demotic Egyptian.'. This information has therefore been added to the Period and Description fields.
Event Date 5/2015
Author: Imogen Gunn

Context (Analysis)
In his article, Gaudard notes that although the provenance of the object is unknown, a 'Panopolite origin is not unlikely; see see, e.g., M. Chauveau, ‘Rive droite, rive gauche. Le nome panopolite au IIe et IIIe siècles de notre ère’, in: A. Egberts – B.P. Muhs – J. van der Vliet (eds), Perspectives on Panopolis: An Egyptian Town from Alexander the Great to the Arab Conquest. Acts from an International Symposium Held in Leiden on 16, 17 and 18 December 1998 (P. L. Bat. 31, Leiden – Boston – Cologne, 2002), p. 45–54; Vleeming, Demotic and Greek-Demotic Mummy Labels, pp. 127–133, 794–802.' Panopolis has therefore been tentatively added to the Place field.
Event Date 2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Gaudard, F. (2018). 'A Greek-Demotic Mummy Label in the University Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology'. In van Heel, K.D., Hoogendijk, F. and Martin, C. (eds.) (2018). Hieratic, Demotic and Greek Studies and Text Editions. Of Making Many Books There Is No End: Festschrift in Honour of Sven P. Vleeming. (P.L. Bat. 34). Brill: Leiden. pp. 309-314, Pl. XLVIII
Event Date 2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
In his article on this mummy label, Gaudard revises the original dating of 1st century AD 'on paleographical grounds, a later dating seems preferable. Indeed, in the Greek text, the characteristic shapes of the letters α and β would support a 2nd–3rd century AD dating'. The Period field has therefore been updated accordingly.
Event Date 2018
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)