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Textiles160
Coins29

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International Textile Collection160
Coin Collection29

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Egypt160
Alexandria, Egypt29
Fayum20

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Nero9
Claudius6
Domitian5
Vespasian4
Agrippina2
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Galba1
mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

c. 2500 BCE

Fragment of coarse plain woven cloth. Light brown colour with darker brown stripes formed by double weft threads which are not at standard intervals. Very creased. This is a wrapping from the mumm...

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mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

c. 2500 BCE

Fragment of cream coloured, fine, plain woven cloth. This is a wrapping from the mummy of Nekht-Ankh. The tomb of Khnum-Nakht and Nekht-Ankh in Der Rifeh, was excavated in 1907. Inscriptions in th...

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mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Fragment of fine, mid brown, plain woven fabric.

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mummy cloth
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mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Rectangular fragment of fine, mid-dark brown, plain woven fabric.

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mummy cloth
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mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Fragment of fine, mid-dark brown, plain woven fabric.

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mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Fragment of fine, cream/light brown, plain woven fabric. With dark brown staining around part of the edge.

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mummy cloth
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mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Fragment of fine, light-mid brown, plain woven fabric. This fragment includes part of the selvedge.

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mummy cloth
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mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Rectangular fragment of fine, cream/light brown, plain woven fabric. The fragment has five blue weft thread stripes at one edge formed of 8, 3, 3, 3 and 6 threads.

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mummy cloth
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mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Rectangular fragment of fine, mid-dark brown, plain woven fabric with five blue, weft thread stripes at one end of 6, 3, 3, 3 and 10 threads.

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mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Fragment of fine, mid-dark brown, plain woven fabric. There is an end fringe of 12 cm. long warp threads.

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mummy cloth
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mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Fragment of fine, light-mid brown, plain woven fabric. At one end are five blue dyed weft thread stripes of 7, 3, 3, 3 and 5 threads.

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mummy cloth
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mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Fragment of fine, cream-light brown, plain woven fabric. At one end of the fragment are five blue dyed weft thread stripes of 8, 3, 3, 3 and 8 threads (the last stripe has lost threads due to fraying...

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