Fragments of cotton shroud ROM 973.24.3413 [b]

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Cemetery II, tomb 370 (funerary). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number #30. The textile was wrapped around the skeleton.

Dating: Christian period.

Present location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada). Inventory number ROM 973.24.3413

Dimensions (in cm): 4x1.5 (?)

Weave: Weft-faced tabby

Decoration: None.

Warp (fibre, twist, color, proportion): - cotton
- S spun
- golden (undyed)
- 6 warps/cm

Weft (fibre, twist, color, proportion): - cotton
- S spun
- golden (undyed)
- 10 picks/cm

Other features: n.c.

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

Analysis: n.c.

Production: Nubian.