Es Sadda 1 (a post-Meroitic cemetery, 4th Cataract Area). Tumulus 80 (funerary). Date of exploration: November 2005.
Post-Meroitic period.
Museum of Archaeology, Poznan (Poland). No inventory number.
13.6x37, 28x21.6 and numerous fragments (total surface estimated 10 A4 plates)
Tabby and weft-faced tabby.
Cream and red bands (weft-aced tabby) on orange ground (tabby). The height of the red bands varies is 2.1/2.5/29 and 3 cm, the cream one is 2.1 high.
- wool
- S spun
- orange
- 10 warps/cm (ground) and 5 paired warps/cm (bands)
- wool
- S spun
- orange, red, cream
- 10 picks/cm (ground), 19picks/cm (red bands) and 26 picks/cm (cream band)
Corded edge type A7. Simple selvedge Type C1 (with 3 paired warps).
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