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<em>Mummy Tag of Neilos</em>, ca. 150-250 B.C.E. Wood, pigment, 2 5/16 × 4 9/16 in. (5.8 × 11.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.644. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.644_NegA_print_bw.jpg)
Mummy Tag of Neilos, ca. 150-250 B.C.E. Wood, pigment, 2 5/16 × 4 9/16 in. (5.8 × 11.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.644. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.644_NegA_print_bw.jpg)
<em>Mummy Tag of Neilos</em>, ca. 150-250 B.C.E. Wood, pigment, 2 5/16 × 4 9/16 in. (5.8 × 11.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.644. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.644_NegA_print_bw.jpg)

Mummy Tag of Neilos, ca. 150-250 B.C.E. Wood, pigment, 2 5/16 × 4 9/16 in. (5.8 × 11.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.644. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.644_NegA_print_bw.jpg)

<em>Mummy Tag of Neilos</em>, ca. 150-250 B.C.E. Wood, pigment, 2 5/16 × 4 9/16 in. (5.8 × 11.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.644. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.644_NegA1_print_bw.jpg)

Mummy Tag of Neilos, ca. 150-250 B.C.E. Wood, pigment, 2 5/16 × 4 9/16 in. (5.8 × 11.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.644. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.644_NegA1_print_bw.jpg)

<em>Mummy Tag of Neilos</em>, ca. 150-250 B.C.E. Wood, pigment, 2 5/16 × 4 9/16 in. (5.8 × 11.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.644. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.644_NegB1_print_bw.jpg)

Mummy Tag of Neilos, ca. 150-250 B.C.E. Wood, pigment, 2 5/16 × 4 9/16 in. (5.8 × 11.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.644. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.644_NegB1_print_bw.jpg)

<em>Mummy Tag of Neilos</em>, ca. 150-250 B.C.E. Wood, pigment, 2 5/16 × 4 9/16 in. (5.8 × 11.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.644. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.644_NegB_print_bw.jpg)

Mummy Tag of Neilos, ca. 150-250 B.C.E. Wood, pigment, 2 5/16 × 4 9/16 in. (5.8 × 11.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.644. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.644_NegB_print_bw.jpg)

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Mummy Tag of Neilos

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

MEDIUM Wood, pigment
DATES ca. 150-250 B.C.E.
PERIOD Ptolemaic Period
DIMENSIONS 2 5/16 × 4 9/16 in. (5.8 × 11.6 cm)  (show scale)
INSCRIPTIONS Neilos, son of Sarapion. 35 years of age. May your name live before Osiris-Sokar, the great god, lord of Abydos, Neilos, son of Sarapion, being in your thrity-fifth year.
COLLECTIONS Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
ACCESSION NUMBER 16.644
CREDIT LINE Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
CAPTION Mummy Tag of Neilos, ca. 150-250 B.C.E. Wood, pigment, 2 5/16 × 4 9/16 in. (5.8 × 11.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.644. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.644_NegA_print_bw.jpg)
IMAGE overall, CUR.16.644_NegA_print_bw.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2013
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<em>Mummy Tag of Neilos</em>, ca. 150-250 B.C.E. Wood, pigment, 2 5/16 × 4 9/16 in. (5.8 × 11.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Evangeline Wilbour Blashfield, Theodora Wilbour, and Victor Wilbour honoring the wishes of their mother, Charlotte Beebe Wilbour, as a memorial to their father, Charles Edwin Wilbour, 16.644. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, CUR.16.644_NegA_print_bw.jpg)

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