Ure Museum | Database

cite as: https://uremuseum.org/record/2005.7.17

Accession_Number

2005.7.17

Shape

Textile

Shape_description

Sub-rectilinear textile fragment

Material

Linen

Fabric

Fabric_description

Undyed coarse linen cloth with decorated braid

Munsell_color

Decoration

Decorated braid whiplashed to main fragment

Inscriptions

Condition

Fragment. Poor. Decorated braid severely eroded and has spaces where previously there were probably wool (?) tapestry areas. A red-brown substance (dried body fluids?) adheres to the fragment.

Technique/Style

Tabby

Provenance

Unknown

Period

Early Byzantine / Early Islamic

Date

7 c. AD or later

Dating_details

Technique and fabric consistent with an Early Byzantine or Early Islamic date

Artist

Attribution

Image

2008.07.0010.jpg	Top view of a linen fragment before treatment.
2012.97.0009.jpg	Top view of a linen fragment before treatment.
2013.01.0014.jpg	Top view of the textile fragment before treatment.
2013.02.0026.jpg	Textile fragment before conservation process.
2013.02.0027.jpg	Reversed object before conservation treatment.
2013.03.0047.jpg	Top view of an open box with the finished textile fragment put under conservation process. There is one textile fragment stitched to another fragment appears to be original construction frag. 1 comprises a narrow braid w/small repeat pattern (pattern now...
2013.03.0048.jpg	Reversed object after conservation treatment.