textile;
cloth;
mummy-wrapping(?)
- Museum number
- EA6517
- Description
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Textile fragment of undyed linen cloth (mummy-wrapping?); medium quality. Red (v. faded) and blue stripes along plain selvedge. Other edges are torn. Worn, especially along the selvedge. The weave is plain [warp-faced simple tabby] and the threads are S-spun and S-spliced; the stitch gauge is warp c.30 ends per 10mm and weft 16 picks per 10mm.
- Production date
- 1400 BC - 600 BC
- Dimensions
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Length: 60 centimetres
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Width: 17 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- History of Use: lengthways wrinkles, presumably dating from use on mummies.
Information from Hero Granger-Taylor [1992]
- Location
- On display (G63/dc6)
- Condition
- fair
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA6517
- Registration number
- .6517
- Additional IDs
-
Miscellaneous number: BS.6517 (Birch Slip Number)
