textile;
cloth;
mummy-wrapping(?)
- Museum number
- EA6510
- Description
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Rolled strip of linen cloth; medium quality. Colour now dull yellow with oily brown stains - the yellow was possibly produced with a pigment. Starting-border at the inner end of the roll of five groups of transverse threads - the outer one thicker, the looped ends of the warp threads grouped. The weave is plain [warp-faced simple tabby] and the threads are S-spun and S-spliced; the stitch gauge is warp c.34 ends per 10mm and weft 20 picks per 10mm. Edges torn; areas of wear predating final use. On one outer corner is an inscribed "S"; perhaps padding for mummy.
- Production date
- 1000 BC - 600 BC
- Dimensions
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Length: 397 centimetres
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Width: 9.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Information from Hero Granger-Taylor [1992]
- Location
- Not on display
- Exhibition history
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Exhibited:
2006-2007 6 Oct-18 Feb, Tokyo, National Museum of Nature and Science, Mummy: The Inside Story
2007 17 Mar-17 Jun, Kobe City Museum, Mummy: The Inside Story
- Condition
- poor - brittle
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA6510
- Registration number
- .6510
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: BS.6510 (Birch Slip Number)
