Inv. no 15864_a

This find comprises three different textiles.

Quality 1: Weft-faced tabby

This fabric is a mineralised weft-faced tabby. It is conserved, dipped in wax, in several different fragments, which show different levels of degradation. The threads are rather thick compared to other textiles of the Grave Circles; like in most of the textiles of the corpus, the threads are plied with an S twist and their characteristics suggest that they have been spliced. The weave is dense and the weft threads are covering the warp threads. 

Due to the bad condition of the fabric, we have not been able to take a sample to examine the fabric in the optical microscope.

 Youlie Spantidaki and Christophe Moulherat had examined the fabric in the SEM in 2007 but, due to the bad preservation condition of the sample, it was very hard to identify the fibre safely.

 

Grave Circle : 
B
Tomb: 
N
Textile ID: 
Inv. no 15864_a
Funerary context: 
Inhumation
Date: 
17th-16th c. BCE
Date of Discovery: 
1953
Museum: 
Hellenic National Archaeological Museum
Excavator: 
Ioannis Papadimitriou
State of conservation: 
Mineralised
Weave: 
Weft-faced tabby
Threads Structure System I: 
S2*z
Threads Structure System II: 
S2*z
Threads diameter System I: 
0,38-0,50
Threads diameter System II: 
0,40-0,54
Thread count System I: 
12
Thread count System II: 
28
Material System I: 
not determined
Material System II: 
not determined
Structural elements: 
Lateral? edge
Analyses: 
Macroscopic observation / SEM
Notes: 
The fragments are dipped in wax, which is very much hindering the visibility of their technical characteristics.
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