Mummy label
Description
Roman Period, 30 B.C.–A.D. 364. Wood, pigment. H. 8.6 × W. 2.7 cm (3 3/8 × 1 1/16 in.). From: Oxyrhynchus (Bahnasa), Middle Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: EEF excavations 1904–05. Credit: Gift of Egypt Exploration Fund, 1905.
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.
Rectangular, vertically oriented Egyptian mummy label fragment of wood with faded colored pigment and small red/black marks near the bottom edge.
The image shows a narrow rectangular wooden fragment, broken at the top and sides, with surface wear and staining. Faint traces of painted decoration or writing are visible, but most marks are too degraded to read confidently. Near the lower edge there is a small cluster of darker/red pigment strokes that may represent part of an inscription, yet no complete, legible hieroglyphic sequence or cartouche can be confirmed. No clear figures of deities or royal names are distinguishable in the surviving pigment. The overall appearance matches the catalogue description of a mummy label, though the exact script is not reliably readable from this photograph.
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.