textile;
mummy-padding
- Museum number
- EA76008
- Description
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Textile; mummy padding; large pad of bunched and folded linen, undyed. At centre and underneath, buff with oily stains; on the top, much darker due to further staining and much modern dirt. At least 20 layers, apparently all of the same cloth (or of different cloths of similar quality). Edges mostly broken. Some torn edges visible. Also double self-bands. On top of pad, some black material which may be skin captured in a fold. The weave is plain [warp-faced simple tabby] and the threads are S-spliced and S-twisted; the stitch gauge is warp c.22 ends per 10mm and weft c.10-11 picks per 10mm.
- Production date
- 600 BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 24 centimetres (unfolded)
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Width: 15 centimetres (unfolded)
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Depth: 5 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Information from Hero Granger-Taylor [1995]
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Poor; brittle; very dirty.
- 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
- EA76008
- Registration number
- 2005,0824.16
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Unregistered textile 2517
