Fragment of shroud ROM 973.24.3418.1

Magdalena Woźniak
July 16, 2018

Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Cemetery II, tomb 573 (funerary). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number #33. Cloth wrapping from skull on an infant.

Christian period.

Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada). Inventory number ROM 973.24.3418.1

20x15.5

Weft-faced tabby.

Dark cotton warps alternate with cream wool warps, 2 by 2. From selvedge, only cream (undyed) woollen warps on 8 cm.

- wool / cotton
- all S spun
- cream (undyed), brown (undyed)
- 6 warps/cm

- wool
- slightly S spun
- cream (undyed)
- 20 picks/cm

Selvedge type C1 (not reinforced, weft passes over 2 warps x2). Fragments of an edge type B2.

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

n.c.

Nubian.