textile;
mummy-wrapping
- Museum number
- EA76003
- Description
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Textile fragment of mummy wrapping; irregular, ragged fragment of linen, medium-coarse quality, undyed, now buff-coloured with grey-brown oily stains. Very worn. Edges torn, cut (in modern times) or ragged. The weave is plain [warp-faced simple linen] and the threads are S-spliced and S-spun; the stitch gauge is warp c.24 ends per 10mm and weft c.8 picks per 10mm.
- Production date
- 600 BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 31 centimetres
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Width: 65 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Information from Hero Granger-Taylor [1995]
Any cutting dates from modern times.
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Poor.
- Acquisition date
- 1853 (?)
- Acquisition notes
- EA 76002-76005 were found together with two other textiles (Unregistered 1097-8) in a paper bundle, unlabelled but associated with other bundles labelled 'Dr Granville'. Considered to come from A B Granville, and probably to be part of the wrappings of the mummy of Irtyersenu, unwrapped by Granville in 1821.
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA76003
- Registration number
- 2005,0824.11
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Unregistered textile 2512
