Pillow ROM 973.24.3445

Find spot (context): Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Cemetery III, tomb 652 (A) (funerary). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: #65. Found inside the tomb near one of the skulls.

Dating: Islamic period?

Present location: Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada). Inventory number ROM 973.24.3445.

Dimensions (in cm): 15x23

Weave: Tabby.

Decoration: None.

Warp (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- cotton
- S spun
- light golden (undyed)
- 8-9 warps/cm

Weft (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- cotton
- S spun
- light golden (undyed)
- 8-9 picks/cm

Other features: Stuffed with raw cotton. Sewn on 3 sides with Z plied cotton thread.

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

Analysis: n.c.

Production: Nubian.