Panopolite nome? 1st – 3rd centuries AD
lAcmA inv. m.80.202.149. carved wooden stela-shaped tag with hole for cord in triangular end, 2.9 x 13.7 cm. one line Demotic (right) and greek (left) on one side, parallel to length, to left of hole. http://collectionsonline.lacma.
org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record&id=45780&type=101 Line 2
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1 Ta-mn Pll? Τ��ιν̣
“(Demotic) Tamin(is daughter of?) Plilis?; (greek) Tamin(is).”
The names favor a Panopolite provenance, but are by no means restricted to that nome. The second sign of the patronym is perhaps to be read not as an r but as an l with the extra stroke overlapping the following , in which case this may be a phonetic writing of P(-)ll, “Plilis,” as suggested by one of the anonymous readers. for this name, see 8.1n. Phonetic rather than historical writings of egyptian names in Demotic are occasionally attested; see, e.g., NB Dem. 1:160, Beleg 9 (Pikš for P-igš ); 1:401, Beleg 16 (P-ḥr for Pa-ḥr); 1:450 (Pettrjṱḥw for P-ti-t-rpj.t); 1:1074 and 1287 (Trmwths for T-rnn.t); and Na-men-Indices 151 (zu S. 200: Pllwe for P-lwlw). The final letter of the greek is probably to be read as a nu, giving an undeclined form of the name Tamin(is), which occurs often enough. A reading nu iota is also possible, but gives a dative form, which seems less likely here.
12. Bilingual Mummy Label
Panopolite nome? 2nd – 3rd centuries AD
lAcmA inv. m.80.202.150. carved wooden stela-shaped tag with hole for cord in triangular end, 5.6 x 12.2 cm. four lines Demotic on one side (A) to left of hole, three lines greek on other side (B) to right of hole, both sides paral-lel to length. http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=
record&id=45781&type=101 Side A
1 nḫ by=f m-bḥ Wsir Ḫnt-imnt ntr
2 nb Ibt P-ti-mn <s?> P-ti-mn-(p-)t?, 3 nt iw=w ḏd n=f P-mrš rn=f mn 4 š nḥḥ ḏt mwt=f n rnp.t 48
“may his soul live before osiris, foremost-of-the-westerners, (the) great god, lord of Abydos, Peteminos (the) elder <son of?> Petemptos?, to whom they say to him Pmersis, his name is established forever and ever, he died in (his) year 48.”
Side B
1 Πετε�ῖν�ς ὁ (κ�ὶ)
2 Π`�´έρσις ἐβί<ω>σ(εν) <ἔτη>
3 �͞η
“Peteminos also (known as) Pmersis, he lived 48 (years).”
This mummy label contains no explicit reference to its provenance, but the formula is very occasionally attested on mummy labels that mention place names in the Panopolite or 9th upper egyptian nome (see the note to ll. 1-2).
Side A is written in a mixture of Demotic and hieratic, or Demotic influenced by hieratic. nḫ and Wsir Ḫnt-imntt ntr in line 1, nb Ibt in l. 2, and ḏt in l.
4 seem particularly “hieratic.” Similar mixtures are found in other mummy labels, see W. Spiegelberg, Aegyptische und griechische Eigennamen aus Mumi-enetiketten der römischen Kaiserzeit (leipzig 1901) pl. 15 (no. 42), almost cer-tainly by the same scribe; and g. möller, Mumienschilder (leipzig 1913) pl. 28 (nos. 73 and 74).
A1-2 for the formula, see Spiegelberg B. Allgemeiner Teil, pp. 3-4 (formel A). for the epithets of osiris, see Spiegelberg B. Allgemeiner Teil, pp.
7-8 (formel n).
A2 for the patronym Petemptos, see NB Dem. 1:312, and m. Pezin, “les étiquettes de momies du musée de Picardie à Amiens,” Enchoria 8.2 (1978) 10-12. The writing of the element mn in the patronym is markedly different from the writing in the first name, but it is very similar to the writing of mn in the other examples of the name P-ti-mn-p-t. The author thanks the anonymous readers for the suggestion.
A3 for the nickname Pmersis, which means “the red (one)”, see NB Dem., Namen-Indices 148 (zu S. 190).
B1 The Demotic name P-ti-mn is represented here in greek as Πε- Πε-τε�ῖν�ς rather than the more usual Πετε�ῖνις, but variation in application of greek declensional endings to undeclined egyptian names was not unusual see m. leiwo, “Scribes and language Variation,” in l. Pietilä-castrén and m.
Vesterinen (eds.), Grapta Poikila, vol. 1 (helsinki 2003) 3. After the final sigma of Peteminos (with the sigma much prolonged to the right) features what ap-pears to be a small omicron with a supralineal double diagonal stroke. i am not aware of such an abbreviation used for ὁ (κ�ὶ), but the reading is necessitated by the Demotic text on Side A.
B2 The greek scribe appears to have omitted two important elements:
(1) the medial omega in ἐβί<ω>σ(εν) and (2) the word <ἔτη>. one might be inclined to combine these omissions with the observation that the scribe was a clumsy writer, as he initially omitted the mu in Π`�´έρσις.
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13. Demotic Mummy Label
Panopolite nome? 1st – 3rd centuries AD
lAcmA inv. m.80.202.151. carved wooden stela-shaped tag with hole for cord in triangular end, 3.3 x 17.8 cm. Two lines Demotic on one side, parallel to length, left of hole. http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?
request=record&id=45782&type=101 1 T-šr.t-(n)- . . .
2 ta P-ti-mn . . .
“Sen- . . . daughter of Peteminis, . . .”
1 The beginning of the name of the deceased is preserved, but the end fades out to the left.
2 This line ap-parently starts with the deceased’s father’s name, Peteminis, but it is unclear what fol-lows because the text fades out to the left.
14. Bilingual Mummy Label
Panopolite nome, west bank 3rd century AD
lAcmA inv. m.80.202.153. carved wooden stela-shaped tag with hole for cord in triangular end, 5.4 x 13.2 cm. four lines greek on one side (A) to right of hole, five lines Demotic on other side (B) to left of hole, both sides paral-lel to length. http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=
record&id=45784&type=101 Side A
1 Πελ̣ῖ̣λ̣ι̣ς̣ Π̣ε̣λ̣ί̣λ̣ι̣–
2 �ς Δ̣ε̣τ̣�̣ρ̣ί�υ �η–
3 τρὸς Σενψεν–
4 �εχῆτ�ς
Line 1
Line 2
“Pelilis (son) of Pelilis (son) of Detarios?, (his) mother is Senpsenme(n)-ches?”
Side B
1 nḫ by=f nḥḥ ḏt m-bḥ 2 Wsir-Skr ntr nb Ibt 3 P-lly s P-lyly s T-
4 trs mw.ṱ=f ⌈T-šr.t-p-šr-t-šr.t-mnḫ?⌉
5 p rmt P-swn ⌈iw=f tni r rnp.t 40⌉
“may his soul live forever and ever in the presence of osiris-Sokar, (the) great god, lord of Abydos, Pelilis son of Pelilis son of Detarios?, his mother is Senpsensenmenches?, the man of Psonis, he is 40 years old.”
The mention of the town Psonis on Side B l. 5 indicates that this mum-my label comes from Triphion (see 4). The handwriting and formula of this mummy label are very similar to those of other mummy labels from Psonis attributed to a single scribe by m. chauveau, “Autour des étiquettes de momies de la Bibliothèque nationale de Vienne,” BIFAO 92 (1992) 103, no. 3 with n. 8;
and m. chauveau and h. cuvigny, “Étiquettes de momies grecques et démo-tiques de la Bibliothèque nationale,” ZPE 130 (2000) 187, no. 12. one of these other mummy labels (CEMG 539) is dated to may 3, AD 256, placing this label securely in the 3rd century AD.
A1-2 The greek name and patronym are read with the help of the De-motic. for the Demotic name(s), see 8.1n. The third letter of the greek grand-father’s name resembles a gamma, but the Demotic suggests that it should be read as a tau.
A3-4 The Demotic matronym seems somewhat longer than the greek requires. The greek name does not seem to be attested elsewhere, but this may be a variant of a composite name Σενψεν- + �ε(γ)χῆς. for the omission of a medial nasal before a velar stop, cf. gignac, Grammar 1:116 (c.1.a).
B1-2 for this formula, see W. Spiegelberg, Aegyptische und griechische Eigennamen aus Mumienetiketten der römischen Kaiserzeit (leipzig 1901) B.
Allgemeiner Teil, pp. 3-4 (formel A).
B5 The place-name Psonis is written in Demotic both as P-swn (g.
möller, Mumienschilder [leipzig 1913] nos. 11, 49, and 50), as here, and as Pr-swn (möller, Mumienschilder nos. 4, 9, 13, and 20). Both are equivalent to greek Ψῶνις; for the latter see calderini-Daris 5:177. Psonis is a town located on the west bank of the nile opposite Akhmim, ancient Panopolis, well known
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from bilingual, greek and Demotic mummy labels; see m. chauveau, “rive droite, rive gauche. le nome panopolite au iie et iiie siècles de notre ère,” in A.
egberts, B.P. muhs, and J. van der Vliet (eds.), Perspectives on Panopolis (leiden 2002) 45-54. The age formula at the end of l. 5 is read with the help of other mummy labels with the same handwriting and formula (see the introductory note), particularly möller, Mumienschilder nos. 49 and 50 (CEMG 2137 and 2135), and W. Spiegelberg, “Demotische Kleinigkeiten,” ZÄS 54 (1918) 126 (CEMG 539).
15. Demotic Mummy Label
uncertain provenance 1st – 3rd centuries AD
lAcmA inv. m.80.202.155. carved wooden stela-shaped tag with hole for cord in triangular end, 4.3 x 13.2 cm. Two lines Demotic on one side, parallel to length, left of hole. http://collectionsonline.lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?
request=record&id=45786&type=101 1 Ta-imn ta P-. . . ? Pr-grg?-. . . ? 2 Ta-tw?-. . . t rmt.t P-wḥ?-. . .
“Tamounis daughter of Pa-. . . ? . . . ? Tate?-. . . the woman of . . . ?”
1 The name of the deceased, Tamounis, is well preserved, but the name of her father fades out to the left.
2 This line probably be-gins with the deceased's mother's name. it clearly begins with Ta-tw-, but what follows seems too long for bẖ, and too short for p-mnḫ. The following epithet, “the woman of,”
probably introduced the hometown of the deceased, or less likely her husband, but the text fades out to the left here too.
Line 2 Line 1
16. Demotic Mummy Label
Antaeopolite nome 2nd – 3rd centuries AD
lAcmA inv. m.80.202.490. carved wooden lozenge-shaped tag with holes in both triangular ends, 3.0 x 17.5 cm. Three lines Demotic on one side, parallel to length, between the holes and overlapping the left one. http://collectionsonline.
lacma.org/mwebcgi/mweb.exe?request=record&id=46124&type=101 1 Sn-snw s Twtw p ḥm mw.ṱ=f?
2 T-pwlny? nt ẖn t mr-iwy.t 3 mḥ-15 Pr-nb-wt
“Sansnos (the) elder, son of Totoes the craftsman, his mother? is Tapol-lonia?, who is in the fifteenth district of Pr-nb-wt.”
The place name Pr-nb-wt is attested in three other mummy labels, michi-gan 4535.10 (W. Spiegelberg, “Zur Bestattung der mumien in der römischen Kaiserzeit,” ZÄS 66 [1931] 39, text b = K.-Th. Zauzich, “Verteidigung eines mumienschildes,” ZÄS 114 [1987] 97-98, text a); heidelberg inv. 1892 (Zauz-ich 95-96); and Vienna nationalbibliothek mS 47 (W. Brunsch, “27 mumien-schilder aus der Papyrussammlung der Österreichischen nationalbibliothek mit einem exkurs zu den mumienschildern des British museum, london,”
WZKM 81 [1991] 122-123). The place name Pr-nb-wt is also attested in two Demotic funerary papyri, P.Bm 10507 (m. Smith, The Mortuary Texts of Papy-rus BM 10507 [london 1987]), col. 4.6; and P.mmA 31.9.7 (m. Smith, PapyPapy-rus Harkness [oxford 2005] 15-16) cols. 1.1, 2.13 and 14, and 5.12. in his line note, Smith, Papyrus BM 10507, tentatively identified the place name Pr-nb-wt with Qaw el-Kebir, ancient Antaeopolis (eg. Pr-nb-wḏ.t), the metropolis of the Antaeopolite or 10th upper egyptian nome. m. chauveau suggested an alternative identification with the town of Φενεβῦθις in the Panopolite nome,
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in “Autour des étiquettes de momies de la Bibliothèque nationale de Vienne,”
BIFAO 92 (1992) 108, and again in “rive droite, rive gauche. le nome pano-polite au iie et iiie siècles de notre ère,” in A. egberts, B.P. muhs, and J. van der Vliet (eds.), Perspectives on Panopolis (leiden 2002) 47 (n. 8). m. Smith then persuasively argued against Φενεβῦθις in favor of Antaeopolis in “Th e Prove-Φενεβῦθις in favor of Antaeopolis in “Th e Prove- in favor of Antaeopolis in “The Prove-nience of Papyrus harkness,” in A. leahy and J. Tait (eds.), Studies in Honour of H.S. Smith (london 1999) 283-293, and in Papyrus Harkness 15-16.
1 for the name Sansnos, see NB Dem. 1:928.
2 for mr-iwy.t, “district”, see mummy labels michigan 4219 (Spiegelberg 39, text a = Zauzich 99, text b); michigan 4535.10; and Vienna nationalbiblio-thek mS 47. for a variant written iwy.t, “district,” see mummy label heidelberg inv. 1892. in all four labels, (mr-)iwy.t, “district,” is qualified by an ordinal number, mḥ-X: “fourth” (mḥ-4, heidelberg 1892), “tenth” (mḥ-10, michigan 4219), “eleventh” (mḥ-11, michigan 4535.10), and “fifteenth” (mḥ-15, Vienna nB mS 47, see chauveau, BIFAO 92 [1992] 108). in three of the four labels, (mr-)iwy.t, “district,” is further qualified as being “of Pr-nb-wt” (heidelberg 1892, michigan 4535.10, and Vienna nB mS 47).