Textile fragment MAP 2010:70/35

Find spot (context): Es Sadda 1 (- a post-Meroitic cemetery, 4th Cataract Area). Tumulus 83 (funerary). Date of exploration: November 2005.

Dating: Post-Meroitic period.

Present location: Museum of Archaeology, Poznan (Poland). Inventory number 2010:70/35.

Dimensions (in cm): 6x2.7; fringe 3.2cm long

Weave: Tabby.

Decoration: None.

Warp (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- wool
- S spun
- brown
- 5 warps/cm

Weft (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- wool
- S spun
- brown
- 4 (?) picks/cm

Other features: The textile is still flexible. Quite open weave. The fringe is Z plied from S spun threads.

Documentation: Textile examined by M.M. Wozniak in August 2017.

Analysis: n.c.

Production: Nubian.