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.

Present location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada). No inv. ROM 973.24.3486.

Dimensions (in cm): 5x2

Weave: n.c.

Decoration: Dyed in yellow, red and blue.

Warp (fibre, twist, color, proportion): n.c.

Weft (fibre, twist, color, proportion): n.c.

Other features: All woollen. Red and yellow threads S spun. Blue fibre unspun, but possibly combed.

Documentation: Textile fragments examined by M.M. Wozniak in November 2017.

Analysis: n.c.

Production: Nubian.