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Tablet depicting a boat and a Demotic inscription
© BA Antiquities Museum/C. Gerigk

Registration Number(s)
BAAM Serial Bibliotheca Alexandrina Antiquities Museum Number 0478

CGCatalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du musée du Caire
A series of scholarly publications, which groups objects by subject in the Egyptian Museum in Cairo. 31094
JEJournal d'Entrée du Musée Égyptien du Caire
The numbering system and accession log created by the French, which has been used most consistently throughout the Egyptian Museum’s history. It is a continuous, sequential numbering system. 27145
SRSpecial Registers of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo
Numbers developed based on the division of sections within the Egyptian museum. 5821

where to find

Storeroom

Tablet depicting a boat and a Demotic inscription

Category:

Written documents, tablets / slabs

Date:

Graeco-Roman Period (332 BCE-395 CE)

Provenance:

Upper Egypt, Aswan (Syene) (discovery date: 16 Feb. 1886)

Material(s):

Rock, limestone

Length:

38 cm;

Width:

25 cm

where to find:

Storeroom

The information given here is subject to modification/update as a result of ongoing research.

References

Wilhelm Spiegelberg, Die demotischen Denkmäler, vol. 1, Die demotischen Inschriften, Catalogue général des antiquités égyptiennes du Musée du Caire 90, nos. 30601-31166 (Leipzig: W. Drugulin, 1904): 25, no. 31094, pl. V.
Urbain Bouriant, “Les tombeaux d'Assouan”, in Recueil de travaux relatifs à la philologie et à l'archéologie égyptiennes et assyriennes: Pour servir de bulletin à la Mission Française du Caire, vol. 10 (Paris: F. Vieweg, 1888): 198, no. 44.

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