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.
9.6x5.7, 4.7x5.5 and numerous small fragments not measured. Fringes 5.4cm long.
Tabby.
Thin orange lines and stripes on dark brown ground. Dark brown threads alternate with light orange ones, both in warp and weft. In the warp, the threads alternate in A/B/A/B, in the weft the rhythm is A/B/A/B/B/A/B/A/B/B/A/B/A.
- wool
- S spun
- brown
- 8-10 warps/cm
- wool
- S spun
- brown, light brown
- 8-10 picks/cm
The textile is dry and friable. Orange and dark brown fringes plied Z from 3-4 S spun threads. Cord fragment S plied from one orange and one dark brown Z2s threads.
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