Textile fragment SNM 18126

Find spot (context): Meinarti (Sudanese Nubia). Area of Building II-III, inside a pot in cache of room 25, Level 5 (settlement; administrative building identified with the Eparch's palace). Field registration number: 6-K-3/112.

Dating: 13th c. CE

Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum (Sudan). Inventory number 18126.

Dimensions (in cm): Main fragments: 9 x 13; 5 x 8; 5 x 6; 4 x 5; 3 x 7.

Weave: Weft-faced tabby.

Decoration: Band decoration in blue and brown.

Warp (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- wool
- S
- brown (undyed)
- 6 threads/cm

Weft (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- wool
- S
- blue (thread dye), brown ?
- 28 picks/cm

Other features: n.c.

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

Analysis: n.c.

Production: Nubian