Meinarti (Sudanese Nubia). Building II-III, fill at Level 7 (settlement; administrative building identified with the Eparch's palace). Field register number: 6-K-3/506.
12th c. CE
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum (Sudan). Inventory number: 15601.
18,5 x 35.5 (after conservation)
Weft-faced tabby with supplementary continuous pattern wefts, floating on the reverse. The warp setting creates a ribbed surface.
The textile is decorated with red and green rectangles, oriented vertically. The red rectangles are separated by blue and yellow ribbed frames, the green ones by brown and yellow.
- wool
- S2z
- 1 cream, 1 blue or brown; 3 double threads alternate with 6 simple ones
- 4 threads/cm
- wool
- Z
- dark red, yellow, green, blue, brown
- 18 picks/cm
n.c.
Textile examined by B. Czaja and M.M. Wozniak in February 2017.
Textile conserved by B. Czaja within the frame of the "Nubian Textiles" project (funded by National Science Centre, Poland (grant POLONEZ nb. 2015/19/P/HS3/02100) and from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement n°665778).
n.c.
Imported.