Textile fragment SNM 18130 [d]

Find spot (context): Meinarti (Sudanese Nubia). Fill of Building II-III, Level 5 (settlement; administrative building identified with the Eparch's palace). Field registration number: 6-K-3/370.

Dating: 13th c. CE

Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum (Sudan). Inventory number 18130 [d].

Dimensions (in cm): 4 x 3 ; 3 x 3.5.

Weave: Weft-faced tabby.

Decoration: Undecorated.

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

Weft (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- wool
- S
- cream (undyed)
- 16 picks/cm

Other features: n.c.

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

Analysis: n.c.

Production: Nubian.

Bibliography:

ADAMS W.Y., Meinarti III. The Late and Terminal Christian Phases, BAR International Series 1072, 2002, 89-90 (description not consistent with material preserved in the box)