Textile fragment SNM 18113

Magdalena Woźniak
January 21, 2018

Meinarti (Sudanese Nubia). Fill of Building II-III, room 78, Level 5 (settlement; administrative building identified with the Eparch's palace). Field registration number: 6-K-3/270.

13th c. CE

Sudan National Museum, Khartoum (Sudan). Inventory number 18113.

9 fragments: 21.5 x 14; 15 x 11; 15 x 10; 9 x 9; 9 x 10; 4 x 4; 7.5 x 5; 3 x 4; 3 x 2.5

Weft-faced tabby.

Band decoration in red and blue.


- wool
- S
- cream (undyed)
- 6 threads/cm


- wool
- S
- red, blue (thread dye)
- 28-30 picks/cm

Reinforced selvedge preserved, Type C2 (Bergman 1975).

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

n.c.

Nubian