textile;
mummy-wrapping
- Museum number
- EA75996
- Description
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Textile fragment of mummy bandage; one end of a torn strip of linen, medium quality, undyed, colour now buff to tan to grey-brown (oily stains ?). Remains of a plain warp fringe, neither twisted nor grouped, across one end. Other end cut, and sides torn. The weave is plain [warp-faced simple tabby] and the threads are S-spliced and S-twisted; the stitch gauge is warp c.24 ends per 10mm and weft c.11 picks per 10mm.
- Production date
- 600 BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 8 centimetres (fringe)
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Length: 29 centimetres
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Width: 13.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Information from Hero Granger-Taylor [1995]
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Medium; brittle where stained.
- Acquisition date
- 1853 (?)
- Acquisition notes
- Wrapped, together with EA 75993-75995, in paper labelled in 19th century hand, 'Mummy Clothes various (No. 2)' and in pencil, 'Granville'. Probably from the mummy of Irtyersenu, unwrapped by A B Granville in 1821.
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA75996
- Registration number
- 2005,0824.5
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Unregistered textile 2506
