Tag: dark blue

Textiles

August 28, 2019

Textile fragment with brocaded decor PAS 69/2008

Find spot (context): el Ar BTZ 12 necropolis (4th Cataract area), Tumulus 2 (funerary). Explored in January 2008. The burial appears as a later deposition. The original funerary chamber was extended to the north-east.
Dating: Late/post-Meroitic (burial reused in the Medieval Period, this fragment comes from the second deposition)
April 15, 2018

Fragments of quilt ROM 973.24.2901.9

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Church IV, vault D (-A) (funerary). Field registration number: 66:1:35. Museum textile number #107.
Dating: 13th-14th c. CE