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Linen fragment

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 14.4.89. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 14.4.89
Find spot: Tarkhan, Fayum Entrance Area, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Early Dynastic Period–Old Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 1, 3–4
Reign: reign of Djet ?
Date: ca. 2880–2465 B.C.
Date range: 2880 BCE – 2465 BCE
Materials: ['linen']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Linen fragment (14.4.89). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/61344

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Description

Early Dynastic Period–Old Kingdom, Dynasty 1, 3–4, reign of Djet ?, ca. 2880–2465 B.C. Linen. L. 20.3 × W. 15.9 cm (L. 8 × W. 6 1/4 in.); Frame (depth includes cleat): L. 21 × W. 16.5 × D. 3.8 cm (L. 8 1/4 × W. 6 1/2 in. × D. 1 1/2 in. in.). From: Tomb 45, 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.

Photograph of an uninscribed linen cloth fragment stretched in a frame, showing dense, fine weave and loose fringed edges along one side.

The image shows a rectangular linen textile fragment presented flat under glass. The surface is dominated by a uniform, tightly woven fabric with faint horizontal and vertical threading visible. Along the right edge, the cloth is frayed with a row of loose, curled fibers resembling fringe. The left edge also shows some irregular tearing/fraying, while the rest of the textile remains intact. No painted, carved, or stitched figures are visible, and there are no clearly legible hieroglyphs, cartouches, or other markings on the textile surface. The object appears to be only textile material without decorative iconography discernible at this resolution.

daily life Early Dynastic Period–Old Kingdom (as catalogued; no specific period markers visible in the image). good

Materials linen (textile weave)

Connections

Found at Tarkhan

Materials Linen

Cross-references (4)

Wikidata-Q Q116433923 tier-1
Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
Inventory-Number 14.4.89 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
MET-Object 559250 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)

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