Textile fragment in weft twining technique SNM 18130 [a]

Find spot (context): Meinarti (Sudanese Nubia). Fill of Building II-III, Level 5 (settlement; administrative building identified with the Eparch's palace). Field registration number: 6-K-3/370.

Dating: 13th c. CE

Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum (Sudan). Inventory number 18130 [a].

Dimensions (in cm): 6 x 2.5.

Weave: Weft-twining technique.

Decoration: n.c.

Warp (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- wool
- 10 x Z2s
- cream (undyed)
- 2 warps/cm

Weft (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- wool
- S4z
- dark red, red, dark blue (thread dye)
- 4 picks (loosely spun)/cm

Other features: n.c.

Documentation: Textile examined by B. Czaja and M.M. Wozniak in February 2017.

Analysis: Dye identification (HPLC-MS) by the Faculty of Chemistry, University of Warsaw in May 2017.

Production: Imported.

Bibliography:

ADAMS W.Y., Meinarti III. The Late and Terminal Christian Phases, BAR International Series 1072, 2002, 89-90 (description not consistent with material preserved in the box)