Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access) · textile

Linen mark Roman PeriodDeir el-Bahri

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Description

Roman Period, 1–200. Linen. 37.5 x 22 cm. From: Tomb of Nespekashuty (TT 312, MMA 509), Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1922–24. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1926.

AI image analysis GPT-5.4-nano

A machine reading of the photograph made Jul 2026: deities, names, signs and a description as the model saw them. Not curatorial; treat it as the model's best reading, not authority.

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Vertical cluster of dark ink marks; individual hieroglyphs unclear/unreadable at this resolution.

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Materials Linen
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