Woollen fabric used as shroud MAP 2005:3/12

Find spot (context): Es Sadda 1 (a post-Meroitic cemetery, 4th Cataract Area). Tumulus 69 (funerary). Date of exploration: 2005.

Dating: Post-Meroitic period.

Present location: Museum of Archaeology, Poznan (Poland). Inventory number 2005:3/12.

Dimensions (in cm): 223x85.5

Weave: Tabby.

Decoration: Central dark stripe on cream ground.

Warp (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- wool
- S spun
- cream, dark
- not determined

Weft (fibre, twist, color, proportion):
- wool
- S spun
- cream
- not determined

Other features: Starting border. End border with fringes. Selvedge.

Documentation: The textile was shortly seen in the exhibition gallery, where it is placed quite high on the wall and kept under a glass panel (M. Wozniak, August 2017). Additional data and pictures can be found in the exhibition catalogue.

Analysis: n.c.

Production: Nubian.