textile;
hair-net
- Museum number
- EA21634
- Description
-
Bag-type sprang hair-net of undyed linen with stripes of dense and less dense netting; seams at sides; tapering slightly at top due to the grouping of the threads in twos; a draw string was threaded through the folded top edge, and the ends knotted together; along one side of the bottom is a brow band with a narrow cord of purple and yellow wool; opposite side was originally threaded with a double draw string, now missing; warp-linen (S spun Z ply); two selvedges and two ends; side seams top sewn in linen (S spun Z ply); brow band cord in purple wool (Z) and yellow wool (S)
- Production date
- 3rdC-4thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 23 centimetres
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Width: 19 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- plainess points to a comparitvely early date; similar to 12544, 18292, 21632, 21633, 37352
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
-
Exhibited:
1997 22 Oct-1998 30 Apr, Italy, Rome, Fondaione Memmo, Ancient Faces
2000 Feb-May, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Ancient Faces
- Condition
- A
- Acquisition date
- 1888
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA21634
- Registration number
- 1888,0512.113
