One-way Tickets to the Netherworld: Mummy Labels and Inscribed Mummy Shrouds

Luigi Prada On 26th April of the 24th year of reign of an unspecified Roman emperor (probably Commodus, which equals the year 184 AD), a modest Egyptian priest named Bes, son of his namesake and a lady called Tadinebhau, died in Pernebwadj, a provincial town in Middle Egypt—then a remote region within the vastness of the RomanContinue reading “One-way Tickets to the Netherworld: Mummy Labels and Inscribed Mummy Shrouds”