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.
3.1x2.8, 1.6x1.6, and numerous small pieces not measured.
Tabby and weft-faced tabby.
Light brown band on brown ground.
- wool
- S spun
- brown
- 7 warps/cm
- wool
- S spun
- brown, ligh brown
- 9 picks/cm (ground) and 25 picks/cm (band in weft-faced tabby)
The textile is dry and friable. Among the numerous pieces on the photograph, 2 fragments with orange thin woollen threads see object T80/D.
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