Scroll with Leather Case
date: label: Accession Date
content: 25 Mar 2005
label: Collection Date
content: 1965
name: label: Collector
content: John S. Roberts
label: Donor Name
content: John S. Roberts
notes: label: Notes
content: Rolled leather scroll in two-piece cylindrical leather case. Scroll is painted with symbols, figure, and text. According to the donor, this is "believed to be a series of prayers for relief from a variety of ailments, woes, and miseries, and presumably was written by a Coptic priest on behalf of an illiterate person, probably a woman... [in] either Amharic or the ancient Coptic language, Ge'ez." Scroll is stiff, and should be unrolled only with the assistance of a conservator.
label: Record Last Modified
content: 14 Mar 2019
label: Specimen Count
content: 3
place: label: Place
content: Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Africa
topic: label: Topic
content: Ethnology
culture: label: Culture
content: Coptic
label: Culture
content: Ethiopian
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 2034999
label: USNM Number
content: E431900-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Scroll
physicalDescription: label: Width - Scroll
content: 10.5 cm
label: Width - Amulet Case, Assembled. With Ridge
content: 5 cm
label: Length - Amulet Case, Assembled
content: 10.5 cm