textile;
mummy-wrapping
- Museum number
- EA76001
- Description
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Textile fragment of a mummy bandage; part of a strip torn from the side of a piece of linen cloth, medium quality, undyed, now buff to grey-brown with black smudges and oily-looking stains. Plain selvedge on one side showing wear. Opposite edge and one end torn. Other end cut. Extensive wear near corner of this end with torn long side. 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.8 picks per 10mm. There are possibly traces of sewing along the selvedge. The extent of the wear suggests a garment before it was torn up and used as mummy bandages.
- Production date
- 600 BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 63.50 centimetres
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Width: 11 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Information from Hero Granger-Taylor [1995]
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Medium; brittle towards one end.
- Acquisition date
- 1853 (?)
- Acquisition notes
- EA 75997-75999 and 76001 were all wrapped in paper labelled in ink in a 19th century hand, 'Mummy Rollers', and in pencil 'Dr Granville'. Probably from the mummy of Irtyersenu, unwrapped by A B Granville in 1821.
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA76001
- Registration number
- 2005,0824.9
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Unregistered textile 2510
