Es Sadda 1 (a post-Meroitic cemetery, 4th Cataract Area). Tumulus 80, fill of the robbery trench, at the bottom of the shaft (funerary). Date of exploration: November 2005.
Post-Meroitic period.
Museum of Archaeology, Poznan (Poland). No inventory number.
5.5x6.2 (banded), 5.4x9.8 (ground) + other fragments measuring 11x9.8, 11.4x15.2, 10x16.5, 5.6x6.8 and smaller pieces from 2 to 5 cm
Tabby and weft-faced tabby.
Cream band on brown ground.
- wool
- S spun
- brown
- 9 warps/cm (ground) and 5 paired warps/cm (band in weft-faced tabby)
- wool
- S spun
- brown, cream (undyed)
- 9 picks/cm (ground) and 27 picks/cm (band in weft-faced tabby)
The textile is rather flexible. Presence of occasional wedges on ground fragments.
Textile examined by M.M. Wozniak in August 2017.
n.c.
Nubian.
Bibliography:
- OSYPINSKI P., Fourth Cataract: Es-Sadda 1. Excavations of a post-Meroitic Cemetery (Two Seasons)., Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 17, Warsaw 2007, 361
- STANASZEK M., Appendix 3. Preliminary Report on Human Skeletal Remains from the Archaeological Sites on el-Sadda, Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean 19, Warsaw 2010, 458