Karanis / Bast
About this Item
Record Details
- Object Identifier
- 0000.01.2181
- Other Number
- Midgley 24.201.003
- Type of Number
- Catalogue Number
- Collections
- Kelsey Permanent Artifact Collections
- Object Type
- Textiles
- Materials
- Bast
- Length
- 3;
- Width
- ;7
- Height
- ;
- Thickness
- ;
- Weight
- ;
- Inscribed
- no
- Full Artifact Description
- Small fragment of yellowed woven wool fabric.
- Subjects
- undecorated
- Unit Grid Number
- 4028
- Component/Room
- 00A
- Area
- R
- Verbatim Provenance
- Egypt
- Verbatim Site
- Karanis
- Countermark
- no
- Condition Notes
- Very dirty and worn. The fragment is stiff and brittle. Several yarns have separated from the woven fabric.
- Fabric Structure
- Roughly balanced plain weave.
- Border Type
- none
- Selvedge Type
- none
- Sewing
- none
- Yarn #
- 12181.WA.01;12181.WE.01
- Function
- warp;weft
- Color
- off white/deeply yellowed (OITH) and very dirty;off white/deeply yellowed (OITH) and very dirty
- Yarns/cm
- 6;11 (two counts only)
- Structure
- single;single
- Spin
- s;s
- Twist Level
- med;low
- Fiber
- wool;wool
- Type Category
- Textile
Technical Details
- Record
- 0000.01.2181
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.01.2181/0000_01_2181
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"Karanis; Bast." In the digital collection Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Art & Artifact Collection. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/k/kelsey/x-0000.01.2181/0000_01_2181. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 05, 2024.