Recent Excavations at the Pharaonic Port of Mersa Gawasis on the Red Sea, 2004-2005 Field Season

Inscribed Artifacts - Wooden Tags

Two wooden tags were found in WG 24. The tags are 7.0 cm x 3.4 cm and 9.3 cm x 2.0 cm in size, with rounded tops, but only the right half of the latter was preserved. The partly preserved hieratic text on latter tag probably contains the word Djed-Baw (literally "Firm of Power"; Quirke 1986: 111). This term refers to "l'extension hors de l'Égypte proprement dite de la puissance royale" (Vernus 1986: 139-140).