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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. 8 × Dia. 1.2 cm (3 1/8 × 1/2 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.

Three narrow, tapered wooden pegs with reddish painted marks and partial inscriptions along the surface.

The image shows three separate wooden fragments/pegs photographed against a neutral gray background. Each peg is vertically oriented and tapers slightly along its length, with worn, abraded edges and a reddish-brown painted band or pigment covering part of the upper surface. On the reddish areas there appear to be red-painted signs resembling hieroglyphic characters, but the exact reading is unclear due to damage, partial coverage, and resolution. No carved relief figures, deities, or cartouches are clearly identifiable. No Greek/Coptic/Arabic text is visible. The overall form and presence of painted inscription are consistent with a coffin component, but the specific name “Wah” cannot be confirmed from the image.

funerary Middle Kingdom (as catalogued); inscriptions too unclear for a secure narrower date fragmentary
Materials woodred pigment/paint
Signs unidentified red-painted hieroglyphic-like signs ×5
Visible text "Red-painted partial signs on the pegs; exact transcription unclear (insufficient legibility to match “Wah”)."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Red-painted partial signs on the pegs; exact transcription unclear (insufficient legibility to match “Wah”).

Connections

Found at Asasif
Materials Wood

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116251844 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 20.3.202g tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 576356 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.