Greek, Greek / Demotic and Demotic Mummy Labels: A Survey

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Greek, Greek / Demotic and Demotic Mummy Labels: A Survey
Version 1.0 (March 2013) Madrid, 90 pp
By
K.A. Worp 

The only aim of this survey is to provide a collection of editions of mummy labels from Graeco-Roman Egypt inscribed with texts in Greek and / or Demotic (including a few texts in late- Hieratic). These short texts (almost 3000 items, mostly written on wood) are dispersed now all over the world and incorporated into a great many collections; in course of time many (but not yet all) of them have been published in a wide variety of editions. The survey1 consists of two main sections, viz.:─ (I.a) A list of Greek and bilingual texts published in various major special editions of a collection (in particular T.BM Arlt and T.Mom.Louvre), in other special corpora of such mummy labels (S.P. Vleeming’s Short Texts, vol. 2, and B. Boyaval’s Corpus des Étiquettes de Momie Grecques [below: C.E.M.G.) or in various other text editions of papyri (in particular the Greek Sammelbuch) and in various journals. The list was compiled from data collected in Trismegistos (see ) and the HGV (see ) while searching in these data bases for ‘material = wood’.

─ (I.b) A list of mummy label texts in Demotic and late Hieratic compiled from
─ (I.b) A list of mummy label texts in Demotic and late Hieratic compiled from Trismegistos / DAHT (see ).
─ (II) A list of locations of collections of various mummy labels listed in the first section. The list is arranged alphabetically according to modern toponym. ─ (II) A list of locations of collections of various mummy labels listed in the first section. The list is arranged alphabetically according to modern toponym.