Ancient Egyptian cotton fragment from Qasr Ibrim dated 200 BC - AD 300

Ancient Egyptian cotton fragment from Qasr Ibrim dated 200 BC – AD 300

Three fragments of a cotton pile carpet. They have blue stripes and the two largest have a blue border down one side.

W ; Z, Sply/Z,sply pile Z ; 1 pile ; 6/5 gr, 5pile ; nat/nat ; pile r, br, plum, lt &dk blu ; 1 -0 frag pile carpet : pattern wit blu diagonals, type? Caucasian, but know single wp, ?Spanish

Large collection of textiles from Qasr Ibrim

Object details

Reference: BOLMG:2007.45.401
Material: Cotton
Culture: Meroitic Period, Nubian Culture
Period: Ptolemaic Period - Roman Period
Dated: 200 BC - AD 300
Associated corp. body: Egypt Exploration Society
Object name: cotton fragment
Dimensions: Length: 67mm , Width: 12mm , Depth: 2mm , Length: 89mm , Width: 36mm , Depth: 2mm , Length: 227mm , Width: 30mm , Depth: 2mm
Site: Qasr Ibrim

Latitude: 22.650278
Longitude: 31.991667