NEWLY DISCOVERED GREEK MUMMY LABELS FROM GEBEL EL-HARIDI.

The article presents Greek mummy labels, recently found during the excavation works at Gebel el-Haridi in Middle Egypt. During the study of the location's Graeco-Roman necropolis, a group of 46 mummy labels was discovered, written in Greek and/or Egyptian (mostly in Demotic script), two contemporary languages. The mummy labels are a well-known type of funerary artefact from Graeco-Roman Egypt, used for identification and commemoration of the deceased, as well as for assuring his or her successful transition to the afterlife. They always contain the name of the deceased and often some additional identifying information, such as names of relatives, occupation, place of residence, nickname etc. Because of the amount of the material, the authors decided to divide the finds into two groups, Greek and Demotic, and publish them separately. This study presents the first part of the corpus: the Greek labels. It begins with a short introduction to the locality and to the mummy labels as a specific "genre" and document of funerary practices of Graeco-Roman Egypt. It continues with a presentation of the individual labels. Each of them is accompanied by a transcription, a translation, a short commentary, and a photograph. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]