textile;
mummy-padding
- Museum number
- EA76010
- Description
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Textile; mummy padding; roundish pad of bunched and folded linen, undyed, but now buff to brown to brown-black in colour (stains appear to be partly oily in character). Only identifiable feature is part of a rolled hem parallel to warp. 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.10 picks per 10mm.
- Production date
- 600 BC (circa - if from Dr. Granville's mummy)
- Dimensions
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Length: 10 centimetres
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Width: 11 centimetres
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Depth: 3 centimetres
- Curator's comments
- Information from Hero Granger-Taylor [1996]
- Location
- Not on display
- Condition
- Poor; very dirty and brittle.
- 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
- EA76010
- Registration number
- 2005,0824.18
- Additional IDs
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Miscellaneous number: Unregistered textile 2519
