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Hawara, mummy labels
On many mummies of Ptolemaic and Roman Period date were found labels with
short information about the deceased. Such labels are well-known from other
sites, and seem to have had the primary function of identifying the body,
perhaps in the context of larger-scale mummification, with higher numbers
of bodies in each embalming workshop.
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