Folded Linen Shawl from Wah's Mummy
Object type: Pad, shawl, tufted, slightly coarse, linen mark
Department: Egyptian Art
Period: Middle Kingdom
Dynasty: Dynasty 12
Reign: reign of Amenemhat I, early
Date: ca. 1981–1975 B.C.
Medium: Linen, ink
Dimensions: folded pad: l. 40 cm (14 3/4 in.); w. 20 cm (7 7/8 in.)
shawl: l. 256 + 20 cm (108 11/16 in.); w. 96 cm + 3 cm fringe (39 in.)
Geography: From    Egypt Upper Egypt, Thebes Southern Asasif
Locale: Tomb of Wah (MMA 1102)
Locus: Mummy of Wah
Excavation: MMA excavations, 1920
Credit line: Rogers Fund and Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1940
Accession year: 1940