Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Cemetery III, tomb 124 (funerary). Field registration number: 63:3:437. Textile register number: #51. Found on top of vaulting, in rubble.
Early Christian Period
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada). Inventory number ROM 973.24.2889.1
83x16.2 (complete piece)
Weft-faced tabby.
Bands with small crosses in oval medallions separated by bands with garland pattern. There are 3 main bands: two red and one blue in the middle. The red ones bear 4 blue crosses each, the blue one 6 white crosses. The medallions with crosses are displayed along the selvedges. From selvedge to selvedge: corded edge (0.3 cm), yellow band (5 cm), garland patterned band (4 cm), red band with crosses (15 cm), blue band (0.5 cm), garland patterned band (4.5 cm), blue band with crosses (31/31.5 cm), garland patterned band (4.5 cm), blue band (0.5 cm), red band with crosses (15 cm), garland patterned band (5 cm), yellow band (5 cm).
- wool
- S
- blue
- 6 warps/cm
-wool
- S
- blue, red, yellow
-16-18 picks/cm
Edges (B2) and selvedges (C2 type, reinforced, double cord).
Textile examined by M.M. Wozniak in November 2017.
n.c.
Nubian.