Linen Mark
Description
Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, early reign of Amenemhat I, ca. 1981–1975 B.C. Linen. From: Tomb of Wah (MMA 1102), part of pad 20.3.203tt on 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 a small, dark marking resembling an abbreviated hieroglyphic sign in the center.
The image shows a flat, rectangular textile fragment with a woven linen surface and visible fibers. Most of the field is blank; near the center there is a single small dark mark shaped somewhat like an incised/painted hieroglyph (a short vertical stroke with a forked/angled element at the top). No other clear symbols are visible. There is no readable Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text, and no cartouche or royal name can be confidently identified. The object’s overall appearance is consistent with a “linen mark” type item from the Middle Kingdom, though the exact sign and any deity association are unclear from the image.
Inscriptions (1)
Visible text (machine reading)
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About this record's data
- 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.