textile;
mummy-padding
- Museum number
- EA76009
- Description
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Textile; mummy padding; flat, roundish pad of bunched and folded linen, medium quality, undyed, in places greyish-beige but mostly brown to black due to staining acquired during and after mummification. Approximately ten layers, apparently of the same (or similar quality). Edges mostly broken, but on the top layer a single cord/tassel from a twisted warp-fringe, and part of a torn edge (probably the opposite end of the fragment), with a double self-band. The weave is plain [warp-faced simple tabby] and the threads are S-spliced and S-twisted; the stitch gauge is warp c.24-31 ends per 10mm and weft c.12-13 picks per 10mm.
- Production date
- 600 BC (circa)
- Dimensions
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Length: 17 centimetres (folded)
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Length: 10 centimetres (fringe)
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Width: 13 centimetres (folded)
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Depth: 2 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Information from Hero Granger-Taylor [19956
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Poor.
- 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
- EA76009
- Registration number
- 2005,0824.17
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Unregistered textile 2518
