Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · textile

Linen mark, Wah

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 40.3.23. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 40.3.23
Find spot: Southern Asasif, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 12
Reign: early reign of Amenemhat I
Date: ca. 1981–1975 B.C.
Date range: 1981 BCE – 1975 BCE
Materials: ['linen']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, early reign of Amenemhat I, ca. 1981–1975 B.C. Linen. From: Tomb of Wah (MMA 1102), Mummy, Southern Asasif, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1920. Credit: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1940.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

Machine-generated from the object's image on Jul 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

A rectangular piece of linen with one vertical column of dark ink hieroglyphs near the left edge and a fringed/woven border.

The image shows a light tan linen fabric fragment displayed flat within a pale frame. Along one side there is a narrow fringe/selvedge created by uncut warp threads, suggesting the piece was cut from a larger linen panel or band. Near the left-center is a single vertical column of dark, brush-like ink signs (hieroglyphic script). The remaining field is plain linen with no additional markings visible at this resolution. No sculpted imagery or figural elements are present; the artifact functions as an inscribed textile mark.

hieroglyphic only Middle Kingdom (per catalogue ground truth) good

Materials linen (woven fabric)dark ink (hieroglyphs)

Signs Possible vertical column of hieroglyphs (inked textile sign/label) ×8

Visible text "A vertical column of hieroglyph-like signs in dark ink on the left side; exact reading unclear from the image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

A vertical column of hieroglyph-like signs in dark ink on the left side; exact reading unclear from the image.

Connections

Found at Asasif

Materials Linen Dark Ink

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From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.