Textile fragment SNM 18131 [c]

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-3/179.

Dating: 13th c. CE

Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum (Sudan). Inventory number 18131 [c].

Dimensions (in cm): 2 x 2.5.

Weave: Weft-faced tabby.

Decoration: Red ground.

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

Weft (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- wool
- S
- red (thread dye)
- 20 picks/cm

Other features: Reinforced selvedge preserved, Type C2 (Bergman 1975).

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 (content of the box not consistent with description)