History

Five original museum scans with Greek inscriptions and English translations. Select passages on the object, or read the complete records here.

Mummy Label of Paniskos

Read the two-line Greek identification of Paniskos and his father on a carved wooden mummy label.

Read the abbreviated Greek inscription naming Herakleides, his occupation and his mother.

Read Aurelia Artemisia’s dedication beneath a pair of bronze eyes, offered after an answered prayer.

Read the civic ownership inscription on a bronze herald’s staff from Metapontum.

Read the names of Neokles and his son Aristoteles above their carved farewell on an Athenian marble grave stele.