Textile fragment BM EA78435

Find spot (context): Kulubnarti (Sudanese Nubia). Site S-2-21, House F2, Room 5, 2nd level (settlement) .

Dating: Late Christian/Post-Christian period.

Present location: British Museum, London. Inventory number EA78435.
Donated by W.Y. Adams/University of Kentucky, Museum of Anthropology in 2005. Previous inventory number UKMA 85.2.101.

Dimensions (in cm): 29.5x4

Weave: Tabby.

Decoration: None.

Warp (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- cotton
- S
- undyed
- 14 threads/cm

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

Other features: The fragment has a peculiar feature: its warps are twisted and plied into fringes, which seems to produce an end border, but in fact, there are two warps joined thread by thread with a twist. Such a process was described by Grace Crowfoot as Beaming (see section Bibliography). Similar feature appears in a 20th c. DAMMUR piece housed at the TRC (see section Relations).

Documentation: British Museum: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/Y_EA78435
Textile seen in January 2017 (MM Wozniak).

Analysis: n.c.

Production: Nubian.