Linen Mark
This linen bandage is inscribed for a Libyan prince named Osorkon, son of Harsiese. It was part of the fourth layer of wrappings of a person who had been placed in an undecorated mummiform coffin that was apparently made for a woman and then buried in a shallow pit cut into the floor of Tomb MMA 118 at Deir el-Bahari. It is unlikely that the body on which the bandage was found was Osorkon himself, who would have had a much grander burial. It is more plausible that this was excess linen that was found in storage and used by someone else, perhaps a lower-ranking relative.
Artwork Details
- Title: Linen Mark
- Period: Third Intermediate Period
- Dynasty: Dynasty 22
- Date: ca. 945–712 B.C.
- Geography: From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb MMA 118, intrusive, MMA excavations, 1926–27
- Medium: Linen
- Dimensions: L. 34 × W. 12 cm (13 3/8 × 4 3/4 in.)
- Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1927
- Object Number: 27.3.615
- Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art
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