Textile fragment SNM 18132 [b]

Find spot (context): Meinarti (Sudanese Nubia). Building II-III, floor of room 58, Level 5 (settlement; administrative building identified with the Eparch's palace). Field registration number: 6-K-3/371.

Dating: 13th c. CE

Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum (Sudan). Inventory number 18132 [b].

Dimensions (in cm): 4 x 4; 4 x 3; 7 x 6.

Weave: Tabby.

Decoration: Blue bands on brown ground.

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

Weft (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- wool
- Z2s
- light brown (undyed), blue
- 6 picks/cm

Other features: n.c.

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

Analysis: n.c.

Production: Nubian.