Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Cemetery IV, tomb 8 (B) (funerary). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number: #75.
Christian period.
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada). Inventory number ROM 973.24.3453.1, .973.24.3453.2 and 973.24.3453.3.
32x22, 11x9, 40x28, 29x21, 16x17, 10x7, 8x6, 18x6, 24x10, 21x3, 23x13.
Weft-faced compound tabby (ground) and weft-faced tabby extended (bands).
Large bands in blue and white decorated with at least 3 various patterns: (a) eight-petals flowers, (b) medallions with heart-shaped petals flowers alternating with lozenges, (c) octagons alternating with squares. These bands are separated by thinner red bands.
- wool
- S spun
- cream (undyed)
- 4 paired warps (main warp) and 4 simple warps (binding warp)/cm (ground), 4 triple warps/cm (red bands in weft-faced extended tabby)
- wool
- S spun
- cream (undyed), blue (ground), red (weft-faced extended tabby)
- 28 picks/cm (ground), 28 paired picks/cm (red bands)
Edge type B2. ROM 973.24.3453.3 counts a fragment which shows that starting from the corded transverse edge the decor is set as following: a cream band (2.8 cm high), a blue band (2.3 cm high), and a red band (1.8 cm high) in weft-faced extended tabby 2/3, then a figured band in ground weave decorated with white pearls and blue dots (1.3 cm high), then a red band in weft-face extended tabby again (1.8 cm high) and finally a fragment of a figured band with octagons and squares.
Textile fragments examined by M.M. Wozniak in November 2017.
n.c.
Probably Egyptian (Coptic).