Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Church IV, Vault North Aisle (-B) (funerary). Field registration number: 66:3:4. Textile register number: n.d.
13th-14th c. CE
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada). Inventory number ROM 973.24.3552 (sample)
The complete piece ("Shroud (with Arabic text)") was donated to the Museum of Islamic Art, Cairo and recently transferred to the Nubia Museum, Aswan, where it is probably registered under number 23902 (data obtained during my stay in December 2017).
4.5 cm long
Tabby ?
n.c.
- cotton
- Z spun
- undyed
- n.d.
- n.d.
- n.d.
- n.d.
- c. 12 picks/cm
Data from field register: "Fragment of shroud with Arabic word "bqt" inscribed on it."
Textile examined by M.M. Wozniak in November 2017.
n.c.
Import.