Linen fragment
Description
Early Dynastic Period–Old Kingdom, Dynasty 1, 3–4, reign of Djet ?, ca. 2880–2465 B.C. Linen. Frame: 23 × 17 cm (9 1/16 × 6 11/16 in.). From: Tomb 2050, Tarkhan, Fayum Entrance Area, Egypt. Excavation: BSAE excavations 1911-1913. Credit: Gift of the Egyptian Research Account and British School of Archaeology in Egypt, 1914.
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 a small, beige textile-like rectangular fragment in a display frame, consistent with an aged linen cloth piece.
A rectangular linen fragment is photographed front-on and mounted under glass or within a support frame. The surface is light tan with visible fiber texture and age-related discoloration and small white specks/patches. The edges are irregular and appear torn or abraded, with no clear design, figures, or legible markings visible on the cloth itself. A small printed/painted label-like mark is visible near the lower left corner of the mount (text is too unclear to transcribe). No hieroglyphs, Greek, Coptic, or Arabic script are discernible on the fragment.
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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.