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Linen Mark (Type II)

Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), acc. 27.3.88. Public domain (CC0). Copy archived by egyptianinscriptions.org with attribution; original at the holding institution.

Accession: 27.3.88
Find spot: Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt approx. site location
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 12
Reign: Possibly Senwosret I
Date: ca. 1961–1917 B.C.
Date range: 1961 BCE – 1917 BCE
Materials: ['linen']
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access), Linen Mark (Type II) (27.3.88). Egyptian Inscriptions Database. https://egyptianinscriptions.org/object/61734

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Description

Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, Possibly Senwosret I, ca. 1961–1917 B.C. Linen. H. 24.1 × W. 19.7 cm (9 1/2 × 7 3/4 in.); Outside Dimensions: 3 13/16 × 3 1/8 in. (9.8 × 8 cm). From: Tomb MMA 507 (The Slain Soldiers), from body no. 20, Deir el-Bahri, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Egypt. Excavation: MMA excavations, 1926–27. Credit: Rogers Fund, 1927.

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.

A fragment of linen with frayed edges, bearing a small dark inked/check-like marking near the upper right and a handwritten inventory/catalog note near the bottom.

The image shows a rectangular fragment of light-colored linen fabric. The left and right edges and the top and bottom margins are frayed, indicating it is a cut or torn textile piece. Near the upper-right area there is a small dark applied mark or ink sign that resembles a simplified cross/X-like grouping rather than a clearly legible full hieroglyph; no surrounding cartouche or complete sign list is visible. At the lower portion, near the center-right, there appears to be a handwritten/typed catalog notation reading “No 20”. In the lower-left corner another printed/inscribed number is visible (“27.3.88”). No clear Egyptian hieroglyphic sentence, royal cartouche, deity name, or Greek/Coptic/Arabic script is clearly identifiable from the photograph.

decorative Middle Kingdom (per catalogue) fragmentary

Materials linenink (faint/dark marking)

Signs Unclear inked mark resembling a clustered cross/X form

Visible text "Visible catalog/handwritten notes: “No 20” and “27.3.88”; Egyptian-style sign(s) not clearly legible beyond an isolated dark mark near upper right."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Visible catalog/handwritten notes: “No 20” and “27.3.88”; Egyptian-style sign(s) not clearly legible beyond an isolated dark mark near upper right.

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri

Materials Linen

Cross-references (4)

Wikidata-Q Q116275418 tier-1
Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
Inventory-Number 27.3.88 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
MET-Object 561835 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.