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), 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 small rectangular piece of linen fabric, frayed at the top and bottom edges, with a single dark inked symbol resembling a hieroglyph on the left side.
The image shows a close-up of a textile fragment: a beige/tan linen square or rectangle with visible weave and frayed fibers along the upper edge and left margin. The surface is mostly plain, but near the left side there is a dark, inked motif composed of stacked or angular strokes that resembles a single hieroglyphic sign or group. No additional text is clearly visible elsewhere on the cloth. The overall presentation matches a catalogued “linen mark,” i.e., a small linen element bearing an inked sign rather than a fully inscribed panel.
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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