label
- Museum number
- EA35524
- Description
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Rectangular ivory or bone label: blackened by burning and slightly broken at the top right-hand corner, where there was a hole for attachment. The front surface is inscribed. The reverse side of the label bears a single incised sign.
- Dimensions
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Length: 2.15 centimetres
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Width: 1.80 centimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Inscription subject
royal
- Curator's comments
- Bibliography:
W. M. F. Petrie, 'Royal Tombs of the Earliest Dynasties' II, pl. V, 2;
R. Weill, ‘Recherches sur la première dynastie et les temps prépharaoniques' I (Cairo, 1961), 131;
J. Vandier, 'Manuel d'Archeologie egyptienne', I, (2), 843, fig. 563, (2);
P. Kaplony, 'Die Inschriften der Ägyptischen Frühzeit II (Wiesbaden, 1964), 981, n. 1552.
- Location
- On display (G64/dc10)
- Condition
- fair - burnt
- Acquisition date
- 1901
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA35524
- Registration number
- 1901,1012.24
