Linen mark, Wah
Description
Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, early reign of Amenemhat I, ca. 1981–1975 B.C. Linen. From: Tomb of Wah (MMA 1102), part of 20.3.203yyyy?, 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-style marks/characters on one side and frayed fibers along the left edge.
The object appears as a small, rectangular linen fragment photographed against a light background, with visible weave texture throughout. The left edge shows heavy fraying and loose linen fibers. Near the center-left, a single vertical sequence of dark brown/black ink signs is visible, arranged as stacked or segmented groups; the individual signs are too blurred to identify confidently beyond indicating they are likely inked marks rather than modern pen strokes. No clear cartouche, royal name, or deity determinatives are legible from the image. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. The photo does not show additional context (e.g., mounting or backing) beyond the linen fragment.
Inscriptions (1)
Visible text (machine reading)
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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.
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