textile;
mummy-wrapping
- Museum number
- EA76005
- Description
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Textile fragment; approximately oblong fragment of linen, medium quality, yellowish buff with darker greyish oily (?) stains. Sides torn, one end ragged, the other cut (in modern times). Cracked where stained and brittle. The weave is plain [warp-faced simple tabby] and the threads are S-spliced and S-spun; the stitch gauge is warp c.32 ends per 10mm and weft c.10 picks per 10mm.
- Production date
- 600 BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 43 centimetres
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Width: 20 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Information from Hero Granger-Taylor [1995]
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Poor - brittle.
- 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
- EA76005
- Registration number
- 2005,0824.13
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Unregistered textile 2514
