Mummy label
Description
Roman Period, 30 B.C.–A.D. 364. Wood, ink. 6.2 × 2.2 cm (2 7/16 × 7/8 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 wooden mummy label fragment with red ink marks on one edge and on the right side, photographed against a plain background.
The image shows a small, horizontally oriented rectangular fragment of wood, tapering or uneven at the left end with a missing/eroded corner. The surface bears red-brown ink that forms vertical strokes or partial hieroglyphic signs along the left edge near the break, and additional red ink/number-like marks along the right edge. No complete cartouche, deities, or clearly legible full script is visible at this resolution; the marks are best described as illegible partial hieroglyphic text or inventory/labeling marks. No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic script is visible. The object is consistent in general form with a mummy label, but specific identification of the depicted text and any named persons/deities is unclear.
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.