Meinarti. Building VII, Level 5 [sic], sub-phase 5c (settlement). Field registration number: 6-K-3/145.
14th c. CE
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum (Sudan). Inventory number 18135.
150 x 95 (after conservation)
Kilim
Narrow bands with geometrical patterns displayed on a red ground.
- wool
- Z2S
- pink (thread dye)
- 7 threads/cm
- wool
- Z
- pink, dark red, green, blue, dark blue (thread dye), cream (undyed)
- 32 picks/cm
Fragments of selvedges preserved on both sides - the width of the textile could have been reconstructed.
Textile examined by B. Czaja and M.M. Wozniak in February 2017.
Textile conserved by B. Czaja within the frame of the "Nubian Textiles" project (funded by National Science Centre, Poland (grant POLONEZ nb. 2015/19/P/HS3/02100) and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement n°665778).
Dye identification (HPLC-MS) performed by Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw in May 2017.
Imported from Maghreb or possibly woven in situ by Beni Ikrima people during their occupation of the site.