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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

Edge fragment ROM 973.24.3555

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Unknown (unknown). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: n.d.
Dating: No date (context lost), but the technical features are attested mainly in fabrics from Late Antiquity.
July 8, 2018

Fragments of woollen shroud ROM 973.24.3400 [a]

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Cemetery I, tomb 48 (A) (funerary). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number #12. The textile was wrapped around the body.
Dating: Post-Meroitic period.
February 19, 2018

Woollen textile used as shroud MAP 2005:3/3

Find spot (context): Es Sadda 1 (a post-Meroitic cemetery, 4th Cataract Area). Tumulus 3 (funerary). Date of exploration: January 2005.
Dating: Post-Meroitic period.
February 5, 2018

Wrapping fragments BM EA78846

Find spot (context): Kulubnarti (Sudanese Nubia). Cemetery 21-R-2, Burial 169 (funerary). Field registration number: Cloth 176A,B. Categorized as "fabric type B".
Dating: Early Christian Period (600-850 CE).
January 21, 2018

Textile fragment in weft twining technique SNM 18130 [a]

Find spot (context): Meinarti (Sudanese Nubia). Fill of Building II-III, Level 5 (settlement; administrative building identified with the Eparch's palace). Field registration number: 6-K-3/370.
Dating: 13th c. CE