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Wig ornaments of Hapiankhtifi

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Description

Wig Ornaments (14), Hapiankhtifi. Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, ca. 1981–1802 B.C. Wood. L. each 0.03m. From: Tomb of Hapiankhtifi, Mummy, Meir, Middle Egypt, Egypt. Excavation: Khashaba excavations, 1910–12. Credit: Gift of J. Pierpont Morgan, 1912.

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 multiple dark, teardrop- or leaf-shaped fragments on a light background, arranged in rows.

A set of similar, curved, wedge-like/teardrop elements is displayed against a pale field. The pieces appear to be separated and photographed for comparison, with noticeable surface texture and darker staining/paint-like bands in places. No clearly readable hieroglyphs, cartouches, or human/animal figures are visible; the forms resemble cutouts or carved elements rather than assembled figurative wig ornaments. There is no identifiable Greek/Coptic/Arabic text, and no inscriptions are legible from this image.

unclear Middle Kingdom (catalogue ground truth; not visually confirmable from this cropped/fragmentary view) fragmentary
Materials wood (catalogue ground truth; not visually verifiable from image)

Connections

Found at Meir

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116281679 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 12.183.20a–n tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 546295 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
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  • 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.