textile;
mummy-packing
- Museum number
- EA76007
- Description
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Textile; mummy-packing; folded single fragment of linen, medium quality, undyed, now yellowish grey and wholly impregnated with another substance, possibly oil. Edges torn or broken. Worn, particularly at one side. The padding is from between layers of mummy wrapping, to soften the outline and create features. The weave is plain [warp-faced simple tabby] and the threads are S-spliced and S-twisted; the stitch gauge is warp c.21 ends per 10mm and weft c.11 picks per 10mm.
- Production date
- 600 BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 14 centimetres (folded)
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Length: 25 centimetres (unfolded)
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Width: 15 centimetres (folded)
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Width: 51 centimetres (unfolded)
- Curator's comments
- Information from Hero Granger-Taylor [1995]
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Medium.
- Acquisition date
- 1853 (?)
- Acquisition notes
- One of eight pads of cloth (EA 76007-76014), found together in a bundle and labelled in a 19th century hand as 'Mummy Compresses'. Wrapper and handwriting as those which accompanied other mummy wrappings from Dr A B Granville. These pieces are probably from the mummy of Irtyersenu, unwrapped by Granville in 1821.
- Department
- Egypt and Sudan
- BM/Big number
- EA76007
- Registration number
- 2005,0824.15
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Unregistered textile 2516
