Linen Mark
Description
Linen mark, Wah. Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, early reign of Amenemhat I, ca. 1981–1975 B.C. Linen. From: Tomb of Wah (MMA 1102), on mummy under sheet 20.3.203rrrr, 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 small piece of woven linen with a fringed edge and a vertical column of dark ink hieroglyphs on one side.
The image shows a roughly square/rectangular textile fragment made of tightly woven linen. A fringe-like selvedge appears along the left side, with uneven, fibrous threads and an irregular perimeter typical of surviving textile edges. The remainder of the cloth is slightly faded and fibrous, with visible weave structure. Near the left half is a vertical line of dark, brush-like ink marks forming what appear to be hieroglyphs; individual signs are partially blurred and abraded, but the arrangement as a column suggests an inscription rather than random staining. No other scripts (Greek/Coptic/Arabic) are visible. No cartouches or named royal titulary can be confirmed from the marks in this image. The background is a pale mount or backing, and the artifact itself is photographed flat with the inscribed face outward.
Inscriptions (1)
Visible text (machine reading)
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