Karanis / Toy, doll / Wool

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Record Details

Object Identifier: 0000.00.3541
Object Name: Toy, doll
Lot: University of Michigan excavation (Karanis)
Collections: Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
Object Type: Dolls; Toys
Materials: Wool
Length: 5.5 cm;5.5;;
Width: 2.9 cm;;3.5;
Height: 1.2 cm;;;
Thickness: ;;;
Weight: ;;;3.0g
Pierced: no
Inscribed: no
Full Artifact Description: Gold and gray woven cloth. Fair condition. Wrapped around small piece of red yarn. Hole cut in both sides. May have been gathered to form neck.; Small doll made from two strips of woven wool fabric with yellowed warp, pale blue/gray weft with a section of yellowed dove-tail tapestry. There are remnants of linen weft-wrapping. The two strips were folded over a small group of red yarns. There is a single yellowed yarn with a knot tangled with the loose warp yarns that may have been the tie that secures the layers.
Subjects: Human
Unit Grid Number: 0241
Component/Room: 00C
Area: R
Verbatim Provenance: Egypt
Verbatim Site: Karanis
Production Site: site
Countermark: no
Condition Notes: Dirty and very worn. There are loose warp yarns and some damaged wefts that leave exposed warps. Most of the weft-wrapping is very deteriorated, although some is still very white.
Fabric Structure: Weft-faced plain weave and dove-tail tapestry with weft-wrapping.
Border Type: none
Selvedge Type: none
Sewing: none
Yarn #: 3541.WA.01;3541.WE.01;3541.WE.02;3541.WE.03;3541.YN.01;3541.YN.02
Function: warp;weft;weft;weft-wrapping;center of doll’s “head”;piece of yarn tangled with loose warps, possibly used to tie the layers together
Color: off white/lightly yellowed (465);pale blue/purple (?);off white/lightly yellowed (465);off white (466);deep red (1807);off white/lightly yellowed (465)
Yarns/cm: 7;40;26;;;
Structure: single;single;single;single;single;single
Spin: s;s;s;s;s;s
Twist Level: high;varies, med - low;varies, med - low;low;low;med
Fiber: wool;wool;wool;flax;wool;wool
Publication Title: Objects of Daily Use
Publication Author: Petrie, Sir W. M. Flinders
Publication Year: 0000
Type Category: Textile

Technical Details

Collection: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection
Image Size: 2272 x 1704
File Size: 127 KB
Record: 0000.00.3541
Link to this Item: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.3541/0000_00_3541p01.tif

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Manifest: https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/api/manifest/kelsey:0000.00.3541:0000_00_3541P01.TIF

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Full citation: "Karanis; Toy, doll; Wool." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.00.3541/0000_00_3541p01.tif. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 19, 2024.

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