Linen fragment

Linen fragment

A piece of linen with a bead decoration attached. According to the original label the linen is 'from the base of the temple at Memphis'. Such items were often used after the Late Period to further adorn the body of the deceased.

From the collection of the Gloucester City Museum, ex. Dyer Edwards private collection...

LIVERPOOL MUSEUM

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NEEDLE

SEWING EQUIPMENT: NEEDLE

Bronze needle, probably for household use.

BRONZE

EL-`AMARNA/AKHETATEN

LIVERPOOL MUSEUM

Inventory number 56.21.613

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linen

Fragments of cloth from a Neolithic settlement in the Fayum (UC 72770, about 5000 BC). This is one of the earliest surviving textile fragments from the Nile Valley: it has about 12 by 9 threads per cm

linen

Petrie Museum

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Folded Piece of Linen with Hieratic Inscription

Folded Piece of Linen with Hieratic Inscription
Period:Middle KingdomDynasty:Dynasty 12Reign:Possibly Senwosret IDate:ca. 1961–1917 B.C.Geography:From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb MMA 507 (The Slain Soldiers), MMA excavations, 1926–27Medium:LinenDimensions:Folded: 25.5 x 17.5 cm (10 1/16 x 6 7/8 in.)
This folded piece of linen was found in a mass grave of at least fifty-nine soldiers. The bodies showed evidence of violence, and from their wounds it was appa...rent that they died on the battlefield. Buried with the individuals were small pieces of military equipment such as bows and arrows. The excavator believed that these "slain soldiers" were connected with a specific historic event that lead to the reunification of Egypt under Mentuhotep II, but a reevaluation of the evidence does not support this theory. On the corners of the linen sheets were inscriptions, some with the names that were popular only later, in early Dynasty 12. The paleography of the inscriptions and the type of wrist guard found with the soldiers also point to a date early in the 12th dynasty, which can perhaps be narrowed down to the reign of Senwosret I (the second king of Dynasty 12). The hieratic inscription on this piece reads "Sobekhotep, son of Imeny, son of Sobekhotep" and is written in red ink.

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Mummy Cloth Fragment

Mummy Cloth Fragment

Period:Late Period–Roman PeriodDynasty:Dynasty 30 and laterDate:4th century B.C.–A.D. 4th centuryGeography:From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-BahriMedium:LinenDimensions:10 x 10 cm (3 15/16 x 3 15/16 in.) Framed (with 90.5.137): H. 27 cm (10 5/8 in.); W. 13.7 cm (5 3/8 in.); D. 2.7 cm (1 1/16 in.)Credit Line:Gift of George F. Baker, 1890Accession Number:90.5.924

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Bandage, Mummy cloth

Bandage, Mummy cloth

dentifier mma_bandage_mummy_cloth_564877
Accession_number X.471
Date 664–30 B.C....
Dimensions L. 23.3 cm x H. 12.7 cm
Gallery_id 134
Mediatype image
Medium Linen
Scanner Internet Archive Python library 0.5.1
What Linen, Cloth, Mummies, Bandages, Africa, Egypt, 664–30 B.C., Linen, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Linen -mummy cat

cat mummy

Priests oversaw the rituals, mummifications, funerals, and burials of sacred temple animals. By the mid-1st millennium BC, people were encouraged to pay for the mummification as a sacred offering to the related deity. A cat mummy would be offered to a feline deity, such as Bastet. This was a lucrative business, and "false" mummies were sometimes created to meet the demand. Actually, this is one of those: X-rays show that there is nothing inside the wrappings.

Walters Art Museum

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Hypocephalus

Museum number

EA8445

Description

Full: Front

Hypocephalus; plaster on linen; Hathor-cow before Sons of Horus, baboons adoring four-headed Ram of Mendes and barques.

© The Trustees of the British Museum

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Mummy Shroud

Mummy Shroud

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

MEDIUM Linen, gesso, paint

DATES 305-30 B.C.E.

PERIOD Ptolemaic Period

DIMENSIONS 40 3/8 x 35 15/16 in. (102.6 x 91.3 cm) As mounted: 44 11/16 x 41 5/16 x 1 3/16 in. (113.5 x 105 x 3 cm)

Mummy Shroud, 305-30 B.C.E. Linen, gesso, paint , 40 3/8 x 35 15/16 in. (102.6 x 91.3 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 37.1811E. Creative Commons-BY

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Miniature Linen Sheet

Miniature Linen Sheet

 From Foundation Deposit 2 of Hatshepsut's Valley Temple

Period:New Kingdom

Dynasty:Dynasty 18Reign:Joint reign of Hatshepsut and Thutmose IIIDate:ca. 1479–1458 B.C.Geography:From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Asasif, Hatshepsut Valley Temple, Foundation Deposit 5AFD2, MMA excavations, 1915–16Medium:Linen

Dimensions:l. 55 cm (21 5/8 in); w. 26 cm (10 1/4 in)

Met Museum

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Beadnet dress

Beadnet dress
Egyptian
Old Kingdom, Dynasty 4, reign of Khufu
2551–2528 B.C.
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Findspot: Egypt, Giza, Tomb G 7440 Z
Dimensions
Overall: 44 x 113cm (17 5/16 x 44 1/2in.) Mount: 139.7 x 31.8 x 17.8 cm (55 x 12 1/2 x 7 in.)
Accession Number
27.1548.1
Medium or Technique
Faience
Depictions of women in Egyptian art occasionally feature garments decorated with an overall lozenge pattern. This design is believed to represent beadwork, which was either sewn onto a linen dress or worked into a separate net worn over the linen. This beadnet dress is the earliest surviving example of such a garment. It has been painstakingly reassembled from approximately seven thousand beads found in an undisturbed burial of a female contemporary of King Khufu. Although their string had disintegrated, a few beads still lay in their original pattern on and around the mummy, permitting an accurate reconstruction. The color of the beads has faded, but the beadnet was originally blue and blue green in imitation of lapis lazuli and turquoise.
Provenance
From Giza, tomb G 7440 Z. 1927: excavated by the Harvard University-Museum of Fine Arts Expedition; 1927: assigned to the MFA by the government of Egypt. (Accession Date: May 27, 1987)
Credit Line
Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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Pleated linen dress

Pleated linen dress
Egyptian
Old Kingdom, Dynasty 6
2323–2150 B.C.
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Dimensions
Overall: 43 x 74 cm (16 15/16 x 29 1/8 in.) Center front (and shoulders): 76.2 x 83.8 x 3.2 cm (30 x 33 x 1 1/4 in.)
Accession Number
34.56
Medium or Technique
Linen
Representations of women from the Old Kingdom almost always depict them in tight-fitting, plain, sheath dresses with skirts held in place by shoulder straps. The long sleeves, formless shape, and over-
all pleating of this perfectly preserved linen dress demonstrate that actual garments could be decidedly different. Perspiration stains and creases leave little doubt that the unnamed woman from Naga
el-Deir in whose tomb it was found wore it during her lifetime. Her coffin also contained what may have been the rest of her wardrobe - eleven similar frocks. Together they represented one of the largest and best-preserved collections of clothing from ancient Egypt.
This dress consists of three pieces. The sleeves and half the bodice were made of a single piece of linen, which was sewn on top of the skirt, leaving a V-shaped opening for the neck. The pleating was most likely done by hand prior to assembly. After washing - with natron serving as soap - the pleating would have been redone for wearing.
Linen was by far the most popular material for clothing both men and women in ancient Egypt, although wool was undoubtedly worn as well, according to the climatic needs. (Cotton was unknown until Ptolemaic times.) The planting, harvesting, and weaving of linen were common themes in tombs. Until the end of the Middle Kingdom, linen was woven on horizontal ground-looms by men, women, or children. The fabric was graded into four categories on the basis of its coarseness and was seldom dyed. The warm brown of this example is its original color, somewhat darkened with age.
Provenance
From Naga ed-Deir / Tomb N 94
Credit Line
Harvard University—Boston Museum of Fine Arts Expedition
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Abdominal Prop

Abdominal Prop

Period:Third Intermediate PeriodDynasty:late Dynasty 21Date:ca. 1000–950 B.C.Geography:From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Deir el-Bahri, Tomb MMA 60, MMA excavations, 1923–24Medium:Wood, clothDimensions:L. 23 cm (9 1/16 in.)Credit Line:Rogers Fund, 1925Accession Number:25.3.174

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Scribe's cloth

 Scribe's cloth

 

 

Period:Late Period

Dynasty:Dynasty 26–30Date:664–332 B.C.

Geography:From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Sheikh Abd el-Qurna, Tomb MMA 804 (M04), Forecourt rubbish, MMA excavations, 1913–14Medium:Linen

Discovered in the debris from the forecourt of a tomb at Thebes, this group of objects would have belonged to a scribe. Included here are a wooden palette (containing an unused cake of black ink) (a) and three reed brushes (b–d); a skein of thread (e); several sheets of papyrus (h1–3, i); a string to bind the papyrus (f); another stringto tie the papyrus to the palette (g); and linen cloth that had been wrapped around the entire set (j).

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Tanwa

—Details of damaged linen around Tanwa’s feet (left) and on her back (right

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CLOTHING

CLOTHING

THEBES: WEST BANK

NEW KINGDOM: 19TH DYNASTY

RAMESSES II/USERMAATRE-SETEPENRE

ROYAL NAME AND TITLES: PRENOMEN

Wsr-mAat-Ra stp-n-Ra

Imn mr (n) Ra-ms-ss

Acquistato durante la II Missione Schiaparelli degli anni 1891-1892.

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Leather bag

Leather bag for keeping fat, with fatty matter still at the bottom; two holes each side for suspension.

Petrie

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Linen wreath of Cleopatra

Linen wreath of Cleopatra


From Qurna, Thebes, Egypt
Roman period, early 2nd century AD...

This wreath belonged to a young woman called Cleopatra who was just over 17 at her death, some 150 years after her famous namesake, Cleopatra VII. She was one of three generations of the family of Soter buried at Thebes, all of whom lived between AD 109 and 146. During a burial in ancient Egypt wreaths and bouquets were often placed on the top of the outer coffin. These may have been carried by members of the family of the deceased during the funeral procession, and put on the coffin before the tomb was closed. They have been found in both private and royal tombs.

In Egypt plants of all kinds were associated with life and fertility. Flowers such as the lotus, which opened each morning, were particularly linked with rebirth. The Egyptian word for bouquet was the same as the verb meaning 'to give life'. This play on words was probably quite deliberate, highlighting the symbolic link between the two ideas. This is just one of many examples of word play in the Egyptian language, illustrating the Egyptians' fondness of linguistic games.

This wreath is unusual in being made entirely of cloth. The inner part of the wreath consists of a bundle of torn linen rags, bound into a roughly circular shape using a longer piece of cloth, now partly unravelled. It is not certain why cloth was used instead of flowers; perhaps because it is more durable

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