Meinarti (Sudanese Nubia). Fill of Building II-III, cache in room 25, Level 5 (settlement; administrative building identified with the Eparch's palace). Field registration number: 6-K-3/118.
13th c. CE
Sudan National Museum, Khartoum (Sudan). Inventory number 18120.
28 x 16
Weft-faced tabby.
Banded in dark red and dark blue. Dark red band 1.4-1.8 cm wide, dark blue band 1.5 cm wide.
- wool
- S
- brown (undyed)
- 6 threads/cm
- wool
- S
- red, blue (probably raw fibre dye)
- 28 picks/cm
Reinforced selvedge preserved, Type C2 (Bergman 1975).
Textile examined by B. Czaja and M.M. Wozniak in February 2017.
n.c.
Nubian