textile;
mummy-wrapping
- Museum number
- EA76006
- Description
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Textile fragment; strip of linen, medium quality, undyed, now buff-coloured with darker, tobacco-coloured threads randomly in both directions, and with darker oily stains. One side torn, the other with a plain selvedge (well worn). One end with the remains of a starting border, with four transverse groups of thread tightly against the looped warp; also worn. The other end cut (in modern times). The weave is plain [warp-faced simple tabby] and the threads are S-spliced and S-twisted; the stitch gauge is warp c.25 ends per 10mm and weft c.13-14 picks per 10mm.
- Production date
- 600 BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 75 centimetres
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Width: 12.50 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Information from Hero Granger-Taylor [1995]
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Good; brittle at one end where most stained.
- Acquisition date
- 1853 (?)
- Acquisition notes
- Stored in a separate bundle with other textiles that had belonged to Dr A B Granville and are believed to come from the mummy of Irtyersenu (EA 75992-75999, 76001-5 and 76007-14). This fragment has sufficient features in common with the rest of the group to make the same provenance likely.
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA76006
- Registration number
- 2005,0824.14
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Unregistered textile 2515
