Karanis / Flax
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.00.3418
- Other Number
- Midgley 24.153.003
- Type of Number
- Catalogue Number
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Textiles
- Materials
- Flax
- Length
- 77;
- Width
- ;24.5
- Height
- ;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Fragment with selvedge edge occurring 25 cm . from a fringed edge, possibly the side of a neck slit. 3 cm from the fringed end there is a 1.5-2 cm of open warp, divided in the center by two shots of double weft.
- Large fragment of woven fabric made from undyed linen. There is a fringe at one end (included in above measurement) which is from 3 cm to 7 cm long. There is no border to keep the weft from falling out. At the fringe end there is an unwoven area 3 cm from the edge of the weft that is almost 2 cm wide. Approximately in the center there are two weft yarns in the same shed. It is unknown if this was an openwork pattern area or if some of the wefts have been pulled out. Unevenly spun, but evenly woven.
- Verbatim Date
- 4th-5th C AD
- Unit Grid Number
- 5018
- Area
- R
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Karanis
- Countermark
- no
- Condition Notes
- Fairly clean but stained at one end. Several very small and one large interior holes. Large edge tears.
- Fabric Structure
- Balanced plain weave
- Border Type
- none
- Selvedge Type
- none
- Sewing
- none
- Yarn #
- 3418.WA.01;3418.WE.01
- Function
- warp;weft
- Color
- off white (466);off white (466)
- Yarns/cm
- 9;6
- Structure
- single;single
- Spin
- s;s
- Twist Level
- med;med
- Fiber
- flax;flax
- Type Category
- Textile
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.00.3418
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.3418/0000_00_3418
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"Karanis; Flax." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.3418/0000_00_3418. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 25, 2024.