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Mummy Tag of Hatres

Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art, acc. 37.1392E. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

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Accession: 37.1392E
Find spot: Egypt, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Roman Period
Date: 100 C.E.–300 C.E.
Date range: 100 CE – 100 CE
Materials: ['Wood', 'pigment']
Height: 9.1 cm
Width: 7.9 cm
Repository: Brooklyn Museum
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Catalogue description: Cultures Nubian, Greek, Egyptian Caption: Nubian; Greek; Egyptian. Mummy Tag of Hatres, 100 C.E.–300 C.E.. Wood, pigment, 3 9/16 x 3 1/8 x 7/16 in. (9.1 x 7.9 x 1.1 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1392E. (Photo: Brooklyn Museum)

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A small wooden mummy tag with a rounded suspension hole, painted on the front with black lettering in Greek (or Greek-derived cursive).

The object is a flat, rectangular wooden tag with a rounded top area featuring a single drilled suspension hole. The front face is painted in dark pigment (black/brown-black) over the wood. The painted text appears to be in Greek characters or a closely related script, arranged in multiple lines; no clear Egyptian hieroglyphs or cartouches are visible. The background wood is light tan/brown, and the painted letters show wear and flaking/patchiness consistent with an aged surface. No visible figural imagery or deity symbols are apparent—only text.

hieroglyphic only Roman Period (as catalogued; script appears consistent with a Greek inscription from the Roman era) good

Materials Woodpigment (black)

Signs Greek letters (inscription text; exact transcription unclear)

Visible text "AT PHC / ΠΑΣΗΜΗ? (second line unclear) / ΟΓΘΑΝΝΙΜΕ (third/fourth line unclear) — exact reading not fully certain from the image resolution"

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

AT PHC / ΠΑΣΗΜΗ? (second line unclear) / ΟΓΘΑΝΝΙΜΕ (third/fourth line unclear) — exact reading not fully certain from the image resolution

Connections

Materials Wood Pigment

Cross-references (2)

BKM-Accession 37.1392E tier-2
BKM-Object 117940 tier-2

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From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Brooklyn Museum — Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art.
AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.