Wooden mummy label with a hole at one end. Painted  on each side with two lines of demotic and hieratic (?) text which is now faint. During the Roman Period (30 BC – AD 395) inscribed wooden labels were attached to the mummies to identify the dead person.

Little sticker has the number '3' on it.

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Wooden mummy label with a hole at one end. Painted on each side with two lines of demotic and hieratic (?) text which is now faint. During the Roman Period (30 BC – AD 395) inscribed wooden labels were attached to the mummies to identify the dead person. Little sticker has the number '3' on it.

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Mummy Label

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