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

Linen mark, Wah

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Description

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 fragment of linen with a vertical column of dark ink hieroglyphic signs.

The image shows a rectangular, beige linen textile fragment with a rough, frayed left edge and a more intact right edge. Across the left-center area, a vertical sequence of black/dark ink hieroglyphic signs is painted, arranged in stacked rows, with the signs oriented for vertical reading. No cartouche boundaries or royal-name enclosures are clearly visible at this resolution. The remainder of the linen surface is uninscribed. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. The artifact is presented against a light background in a box/frame.

hieroglyphic only Middle Kingdom (ground truth from catalogue; image supports an Egyptian ink inscription on linen) good
Materials linenink (dark pigment)
Signs hieroglyphic signs (unidentified grouping) ×8
Visible text "Vertical column of hieroglyphic signs in dark ink; individual signs not confidently legible in this image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Vertical column of hieroglyphic signs in dark ink; individual signs not confidently legible in this image.

Connections

Found at Asasif
Materials InkLinen
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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.