Small single-sided bone label (fragment), perforated in top right, with an zoomorph and zoomorphic structure. (Was more complete when excavated given writing on back, """"AES 20(?)7"""" is truncated now that right side missing).
General Phase
NIIIA1?
Height
2.0cm
Width
1.4+cm
Thickness
0.3cm
Material
bone [ivory]
Technique
incised
Find Site
Abydos
Cemetery
B
Tomb Number
?
Chamber
?
Excavation #
B
Current Location
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
Museum/Collection #
E 9395
Primary Source
Petrie 1901
Primary Text
20
Primary Photo
pl. 3.11
Primary Drawing
--
Other Published Sources
Dreyer 1998: 134, X 185 [text]; 135, fig. 82, X185 [drawing]; pl. 35, X 185 [photo]; Ranke, 1950. The Egyptian Collections of the University Museum, in University Museum Bulletin 15, fig. 11; Ricke, Beiträge BF. 1, p. 32, fig. 7.
Early Egyptian Inscribed Labels
