Textile fragment SNM non inventoried (b) Gemai

Find spot (context): Gemai (Sudanese Nubia). Site 11-I-1 (settlement - a fairly extensive Christian town built of mud brick; funerary - a fairly large cemetery nearby).

Dating: Medieval Period.

Present location: Sudan National Museum, Khartoum (Sudan). Storerooms, non inventoried.

Dimensions (in cm): 5 x 5.5.

Weave: Weft-faced tabby.

Decoration: Blue ground.

- wool
- S
- cream (undyed)
- 6 warps/cm

Weft (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- wool
- S
- blue
- 24 picks/cm

Other features: n.c.

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

Analysis: n.c.

Production: Nubian.