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HEDVIG GYŐRY: On the Collars of the Gamhud Coffins

To sum up, at this stage of research, the Gamhud pieces cannot be fixed more precisely within the Ptolemaic period; further studies, however, on the iconography, the inscriptions, the cartonnage sets and the papyri retrieved from them

92 may bring us closer to a better and more detailed view of the Gamhud coffins in Budapest and in other collections. There are hopes that these sources would contribute to the exploration of not only the coffins, but their ancient owners residing in the vicinity of modern Gamhud. For the moment, the papyrological record implies that the cemetery was used by people living in the ancient settlement Tholthis / t-hlt, where a Bastet and a Horus temple stood.

93 This locality is, however, still awaiting excavation, hence it is hard to tell now if the citizens acquired their funerary accessories from local workshops, or if these were transported from elsewhere. HEDVIG GYŐRY Translated by the author and Zoltán Horváth According to Ulrich Luft, who is researching the papyri (U. Luft, "Demotische Papyri in Budapest," in Acta Demotica, Pisa 1994, 191-95; id., in Res severa verum gaudium. Festschrift fur Karl-Theodor Zauzich zum 65. Geburtstag am 8. Juni 2004, Studio. Demotica, ed. H. J. Thissen and F. Hoffmann, Leuven, Paris, and Dudley 2004), the fragments could be dated to the second century BC, probably to the reign of Ptolemy VII. Unfortunately, for the fragments, which had been retrieved from the cartonnages prior to the World War II, the documentation is missing, therefore their exact place of origin can no longer be defined. Kamal 1908 (n. 1), 10; P. Prunetti, "Note toponomastica," Aegyptus 59 (1979), 1017; For the name t-hlt first in the Gamhud papyri, see Luft 1994 (n. 92), 191-95.