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

Peg from Wah's Coffin

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Description

Coffin peg, Wah. Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, reign of Amenemhat I, early, ca. 1981–1975 B.C. Wood. L. 5.5 × Dia. 1 cm (2 3/16 × 3/8 in.). From: Tomb of Wah (MMA 1102), Southern Asasif, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1920. Credit: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1920.

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.

The image shows three small, vertically oriented wooden pegs/rods with red-painted markings on their surfaces.

Three separate wooden peg fragments are photographed against a neutral gray background. Each piece is roughly rectangular in cross-section and tapers or has irregular ends; the leftmost and rightmost pieces show clearer red-painted numerals/inscriptions arranged vertically along one face. The middle piece has less distinct red marks but still appears to carry red-painted writing. No carved figurative scenes, deities, or cartouches are visibly identifiable from the photo; the markings appear to be painted hieroglyphic-style numerals or workshop labels rather than a clearly legible full inscription. The wooden surface shows age-related wear, cracks, and chipped edges consistent with small coffin-related components. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible.

funerary Middle Kingdom (as catalogued); inscription style unclear fragmentary
Materials wood
Signs red-painted numeral(s)/hieroglyphic-style marks (unreadable) ×3
Visible text "Red-painted vertical marks/numerals; exact characters unreadable from the provided image."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Red-painted vertical marks/numerals; exact characters unreadable from the provided image.

Connections

Found at Asasif
Materials Wood

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116251841 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 20.3.202e tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 576354 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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.