Es Sadda 1 (- a post-Meroitic cemetery, 4th Cataract Area). Tumulus 67 (funerary). Date of exploration: January-February 2007.
Post-Meroitic period.
Museum of Archaeology, Poznan (Poland). Inventory number 2010:70/36.
8.6x6 (bigger fragment, at the top of the layered piece)
Tabby, weft-faced tabby.
Bands, red and blue?
- wool
- S spun
- blue
- 9 warps/cm
- wool
- S spun
- red, blue
- 16 picks/cm in red area and 10 picks/cm in blue area
The textile is dry and friable. Many layers of textiles agglomerated into one piece.
Textile examined by M.M. Wozniak in August 2017.
n.c.
Nubian.
Bibliography:
- OSYPINSKI P., El-Sadda. Excavations on the Polish Concession (Hamadab Dam Rescue Project). January-February 2007., Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 19, Warsaw 2010, 441, Fig(s). 5
- OSYPINSKI P., Fourth Cataract: Es-Sadda 1. Excavations of a post-Meroitic Cemetery (Two Seasons)., Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 17, Warsaw 2007