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Linen mark (Type V)

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Description

Middle Kingdom, Dynasty 12, Possibly Senwosret I, ca. 1961–1917 B.C. Linen. H. 16.5 × W. 16.5 cm (6 1/2 × 6 1/2 in.); Outside Dimensions: H. 17.1 × W. 17.1 cm (6 3/4 × 6 3/4 in.). From: Tomb MMA 507 (The Slain Soldiers), 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 small square piece of linen with a single black ink sign/mark and frayed edges, consistent with a textile “linen mark.”

The image shows a light tan linen fabric fragment cut into a roughly square shape with coarse, frayed fringes along all sides. Near the center is a black, inked hieroglyphic-like sign: it consists of a tall element with multiple horizontal strokes, and a short diagonal/serpentine hook-like component below/adjacent to it. No cartouche or full royal titulary is visible. In the lower left corner there is also a faint red/orange catalog-style number (“27.3.99”). No Greek, Coptic, or Arabic text is visible. No deities are depicted as figures; only an abstract mark/sign is present.

decorative Middle Kingdom (per catalogue ground truth; not independently confirmable from the image alone) fragmentary
Materials linenink (black)
Signs black ink hieroglyphic-like mark (approx. single motif)
Visible text "Black ink sign/mark in center; exact reading unclear; no cartouche present."

Inscriptions (1)

Inscription #1 AI reading of the photograph

Visible text (machine reading)

Black ink sign/mark in center; exact reading unclear; no cartouche present.

Connections

Found at Deir el-Bahri
Materials InkLinen

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q116275395 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 27.3.99 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 561846 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.