Tag: tapestry

Textiles

July 27, 2018

Textile fragment ROM 973.24.3551.2

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Unknown (unknown). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: Z-10.
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 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 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
February 6, 2018

Fragments of a cloak BM EA72262

Find spot (context): Qasr Ibrim (Sudanese Nubia). Church 1, North Crypt, Burial (of Bishop Timotheos) B12 (funerary). Textile register QI.T.36a,b,c,d,x.
Dating: Late Christian Period/ Mamlouk Dynasty (1372-1400 CE).