Shemkhiya 6 necropolis (4th Cataract area), Tumulus 2 (funerary).
Post-Meroitic.
Polish Academy of Sciences, Institute of Mediterranean and Oriental Cultures, Warsaw. Inv. 65/2007.
2x2 + smaller fragments
Tabby?
None.
- wool
- S spun
- brown
- 6-8 warps/cm
- wool
- S spun
- brown
- 6 picks/cm
Textile very friable, fragments stuck together.
Textile examined by M.M. Wozniak, August 2019.
n.c.
Nubian.
Bibliography:
- Wozniak M.M., Shemkhiya 2006-2007: Post-Meroitic Cemeteries. A Preliminary Report., in: GRATIEN B., Actes de la 4e Conférence Internationale sur l’Archéologie de la 4e Cataracte du Nil: Villeneuve-d’Ascq, 22-23 juin 2007, Lille 2008, 182
- Chłodnicki M., Żurawski B., Fourth Cataract: From Khor Umm Ghizlan to Shemkhiya. Archaeological Survey in the Fourth Cataract Region. December 2004., Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 16, Warsaw 2005, 380