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Textiles

August 28, 2019

Textile rags PAS 92/2008-2009

Find spot (context): Necropolis coded KK1 (4th Cataract, el Ar area), Tumulus 2 (funerary).
Dating: Late/post-Meroitic.
August 28, 2019

Thread fragment PAS 100/2008 [d]

Find spot (context): el Ar 1 necropolis (4th Cataract area), Tumulus 8 (funerary). Excavated in 2008.
Dating: Late Meroitic.
July 30, 2018

Girdle TRC 2018.1979

Find spot (context): Girdle woven by Grace Crowfoot. Label: "Sample made self to demonstrate Sudanese Double Weave"
Dating: 20th century
July 27, 2018

Woollen mantle ROM 973.24.3522

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Unknown (unknown). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: Z-1.
Dating: No date (context lost).
July 27, 2018

Textile fragment ROM 973.24.3533

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Unknown (unknown). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: Z-13.
Dating: No date (context lost).
July 27, 2018

Textile fragments with tapestry decor ROM 973.24.3531.1

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Unknown (unknown). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: Z-10.
Dating: No date (context lost), but fabric with similar composition from Serra East dated to Meroitic/Post-Meroitic period (Bergman 1975, pls. 56/1 and 71/3).
July 27, 2018

Braid ? fragment ROM 973.24.2902

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Unknown (unknown). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: n.d.
Dating: No date.
July 24, 2018

Textile fragment ROM 973.24.3779

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Trench 7/123, fire place (settlement). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: n.d. Field 16/2/65.
Dating: Ottoman period.
July 24, 2018

Textile fragment ROM 973.24.3776 [b]

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Unknown (unknown). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: n.d.
Dating: No date (context lost).
July 24, 2018

Fragment of textile ROM 973.24.3776 [a]

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Unknown (unknown). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: n.d.
Dating: No date (context lost).
July 23, 2018

Textile decorated with crosses (stole ?) ROM 973.24.2889.1

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Cemetery III, tomb 124 (funerary). Field registration number: 63:3:437. Textile register number: #51. Found on top of vaulting, in rubble.
Dating: Early Christian Period
July 21, 2018

Mappa ROM 973.24.2898

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Church IV, vault B(-A) (funerary). Field registration number: 66:1:14. Museum textile number: #105. Wrapped around the head of the body.
Dating: 13th-14th c. CE
July 20, 2018

Fragment of tapestry ROM 973.24.3485 [a]

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Church VII, Burial 5(-C) (funerary). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number #114. Under body.
Dating: 14th-15th c. CE
July 20, 2018

Fragment of block-printed textile ROM 973.24.3500

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Citadel H, Locus 333, room L (settlement). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: #129. Found in the room fill.
Dating: Late Christian (14th-15th c. CE) or Ottoman period.
July 20, 2018

Fragment of an amulet ROM 973.24.3502

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). F-5 storage pit (settlement). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: #131. Found inside a pot of X-group date.
Dating: Ottoman period?
July 20, 2018

Fragment of embroidered textile ROM 973.24.3494

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Locus 100, room H (settlement). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: #123. Surface debris.
Dating: Ottoman period?
July 20, 2018

Fragment of woollen broché ROM 973.24.3492

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Trench 6, sect. 1+5, Locus 17 (settlement). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: #121.
Dating: Late Christian or Ottoman period.
July 20, 2018

Ball of yarn and unspun fibre ROM 973.24.3486

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Trench 6 (settlement). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: #115.
Dating: No date, but other textiles from Trench 6 dated to Late Christian or Ottoman period.
July 19, 2018

Fragment of textile ROM 973.24.3518

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Locus 87 (B) (settlement). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: #147.
Dating: Late Christian or Ottoman period.