The Fabric of Kings: Funerary textile remains from Mycenae and the early Mycenaean textile production.<

Inv. no 15864_a

This find comprises three different textiles.

Quality 1: Weft-faced tabby

Inv. no 15863

Balanced linen tabby, conserved in a good, organic condition. The fabric has single z-twisted threads; it's one of the two cases in this corpus of single threads. Many differences on the quality of the threads, some are finer, some are thicker, the degree of the twist varies considerably and there are visible knots in the threads most probably where the threads have been broken and repaired.

Inv. no 9575

Very degraded, highly mineralised fabric. The technical characteristics, such as structure and twist of the threads, thread diameter, weave etc are not discernible.

Inv. no 9568

A necklace with 14 beads conserves traces of the thread that connected the beads. One bead conserves a fragment of the thread that has opened and reveals a number of probably seven strands (diameter 1,86mm, while another conserves the thread in a more compact way, less degraded (diameter 1,49mm altogether).

Inv no 17976_b

The fabric is an open balanced tabby finer than the previous one. The threads are plied with a marked S-twist. Observation in the optical microscope and the SEM have shown the characteristics of flax fibres.

Inv. no 779

It is a very degraded, blackish balanced tabby. Its bad condition did not allow sample extraction in order to perform fibre identification in the optical of SEM microscopes. The threads are thicker than most of the fabrics of the Funeral Graves and it has a medium density. The threads are plied with an S-twist, probably spliced.

Inv. no 816_c

On many areas of the surface of the first two qualities of fabric, one can observe traces of a very degraded, blackish, different textile, which has almost disappeared. Since these traces occur on both sides of the fragments, it seems plausible that these textiles were wrapped in another fabric.

Inv. no 816_b

A small textile fragment presents the evidence of a finer weave than the previous one. Given the small dimensions of the fragment, no sample has been taken for analysis, but the appearance of the threads indicates that it is very likely also a linen fabric. 

Inv. no 17976_a

This find comprises two freestanding groups of textiles originally deriving from the surface of the silver vase (proghous8569.

Inv. no 228

It is a fine, dense, balanced tabby conserved in freestanding fragments. It is mineralised most probably due to its proximity to a metal object. In many areas of the fabric, we observe copper oxides. No technical elements, such as edges or decoration have been observed.

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