textile;
furnishing
- Museum number
- EA72396
- Description
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Textile fragment, warp and main weft of undyed linen with the remains of a looped pile in linen (c.1cm long) and orange, yellow and green wool (c.8cm orange); design no longer clear but proably geometric, based on horizontal bands; probably from a large furnishing; warp-undyed linen (S/c.21), weft-undyed linen (S/c.7), pile weft-undyed linen (S spun Z ply) with groups of linen thread (S); all edges cut or ragged; rows of loops every 4th shed, a loop mostly after 3-4 warp ends
- Production date
- 4thC-6thC
- Dimensions
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Height: 10 centimetres
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Width: 35 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Unreg. 15; found 1988? in packet in Keeper's Office
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- C
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA72396
- Registration number
- 1990,0612.15
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Unreg.15