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Description: | Rush matting, apparently from four different specimens:- (i) tufts more than 1.0 cm. apart, bound together at about 3.0 cm. intervals, very thick rushes? bound in on one side, double rope edging; (ii) tufts less than 1.0 cm. apart, bound together at about 4.5 cm. intervals thick oversewn rope edges; (iii) Tufts less than 1.0 cm. apart bound together at 7.0 cm. intervals, twisted rope edge, traces of thick rushes?; (iv) Tufts less than 1.0 cm. apart bound together with double lines at about 5.0 cm. intervals very thick double rope edge. Analysis of UC 7505iii by Caroline Cartwright at the British Museum in 1995 identified the following: from the twined thread of the matting three species: parenchyma cells from Linum usitatissimum (flax); culm fragments from Juncus species (rush); leaves of Typha domingensis (reed-mace); from the warp of the matting, the straight lengths were palm leaf strips, probably Phoenix dactylifera or Hyphaene thebaica; rush or reed from the matting from fragments of Juncus and Tyoha domingensis again. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ | Rights holder: | University College London | Subjects: | Egyptology | Temporal: | name=late Middle Kingdom; start=-1850; end=-1700 | Source: | UCL Museums | Identifier: | http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums/objects/LDU... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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