Reproduction
Object Category
textiles
Description
Fragment Jii, part of parcel J (formerly numbered by Petrie "No. 10").
Part of a folded textile. Small pieces. Medium quality, warp-faced tabby. Mainly one large irregular fragment, 2 layers in most areas, plain selveldge and "internal selvedge" both lined up over each other. LINEN: dark cream to dark beige, shattered, insect damage, worn, areas of wear away from selvedges and along plain selvedges (selvedges only intact at certain points). Some knotted threads near selvedge, not apparently remains of sewing. Yarns: s-spliced S-twisted, c. 22 per cm in warp,c.15 in weft.
From numerous linen fragments divided by Petrie into parcels numbered 1-10 (with no 4 absent) now renumbered A-J.
Collection Place
Tarkhan
Collection Place Notes
Tarkhan, Mastaba 2050 Central Pit
Collector
Collection Method
excavation
Publications
- Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Tarkhan II, pl. XVIII (tomb register) pp. 6, 10.
Production Period
1st Dynasty
Production Date
3482 BC - 3102 BC
Material
Dimensions
height: 58 cms
length: cms
width: cms
diameter: cms
depth: cms
thickness: cms
Accession Number
LDUCE-UC28614Jii
Administration Name
Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology
