HNAM inv. no Π 8589

The fabric is a balanced tabby with a thread count of 19 threads/cm for the warp and 21-22 threads/cm for the weft. The threads have the characteristics of spliced threads with an S-twist for the final thread and a z-twist for each single thread (Gleba and Harris 2018). The diameter of the warp thread varies between 0.30 and 0.38 mm and of the weft between 0.28 and 0.44 mm. In many places they appear very clean and shiny. The result is a dense fabric with approximately 20 threads/cm.

Voluntary perforations in the fabric indicate the presence of a supplementary thread that has now disappeared. Perhaps this was used for sewing a decorative object or embroidery.

Similarly to the fabric HNAM inv. no Π 8591, here again, there is an additional S2*z thread, with a diameter of 0.35 mm, inserted in the fabric with its ends floating freely. It probably corresponds to an additional thread serving to sew a decorative element on the fabric.

Black traces on several areas of the surface of the fabric correspond, with all probability, to a different, heavily degraded textile, which was made of a different material (wool) as is the case in other textiles from the Grave Circles.

The technical characteristics of this fabric indicate that it corresponds to the same textile that also covered the bronze dagger HNAM inv. no Π 8591 and the bronze knife HNAM inv. no Π 8592. A sample for analyses has been taken from the fabric HNAM inv. no Π 8591.