Gebel Adda (Sudanese Nubia). Cemetery II, tomb 1039 (-A) (funerary). Field registration number: n.d. Museum textile number #34.
Christian period.
Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto (Canada). Inventory number ROM 973.24.3419
a) (front panel) 25x5.5
b) (back panel) 20x10
a) Warp-faced tabby
b) tabby.
a) Light brown stripes (7mm wide) alternating with colored stripes in blue and red (8mm wide). Disposition of the warp: 16 threads for the brown stripes; 4 blue/4red/4blue/4red/4blue for the colored ones.
b) Blue ground (piece-dyeing).
a) - cotton/ wool
- Z spun/ S pun
- golden (undyed), blue/ red
- 24 warps/cm
b) - cotton
- Z spun
- blue (piece-dyeing)
- 12 warps/cm
a) - cotton
- Z spun
- blue
- 10 picks/cm
b) - cotton
- Z spun
- blue (piece-dyeing)
- 7-9 picks/cm
The two textiles are sewn together with cotton thread (2sS). The quilt was stuffed with cotton or wool. A detailed description of the body's wrapping in the archival documentation mentions the presence of the blue-dyed panel ("green cloth") on top of the woollen fill (described as "sheepskin matting") and the striped textile placed under.
Textile fragments examined by M.M. Wozniak in November 2017.
n.c.
Imported. The quilt may have been produced in Nubia.