Bundle of yarn BM EA84581

Find spot (context): Kulubnarti (Sudanese Nubia). Site 21-R-2 (cemetery).

Dating: Post-Christian period.

Present location: British Museum, London. Inventory number EA84581.
Donated by W.Y. Adams/University of Kentucky, Museum of Anthropology in 2005. Previous inventory number UKMA n.d.

Dimensions (in cm): 20x0.5

Description: Bundle of S spun cotton threads, slightly plied Z. Traces of blue dye, rather uneven, as if threads were respun from blue and undyed fibres..

Documentation: British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA84581
Textile seen in January 2017 (MM Wozniak).

Analysis: n.c.

Production: Nubian.