A Neolithic Egyptian textile excavated in Egypt

A Neolithic Egyptian textile excavated in Egypt © UCL Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

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dress Tarkhan

 

Originally excavated by Egyptologist Flinders Petrie in 1913 from a First Dynasty tomb at Tarkhan (an Egyptian cemetery located 50km south of Cairo) this dress lay undiscovered with various other textiles until 1977, when the bundle was sent to London’s Victoria and Albert Museum for conservation work.

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shroud

This piece of painted material belongs to the category of "shrouds" and "votive cloths" which have been found in the funerary temple of Montuhotep II at Deir el-Bahari. The majority of fabrics show the male or female owner in the middle of presenting offerings to the <A HREF="God">goddess</A> Hathor. According to the iconographic details, one distinguishes different groups. The Brussels example belongs to the group which depicts the cow-goddess in a processional barque. Three small columns of hieroglyphs, which surmount the scene, mention the name of the owner and of the local <A HREF="God">goddess</A>.

DEIR EL-BAHARI

NEW KINGDOM: 18TH DYNASTY

L. Speleers, Recueil des inscriptions égyptiennes des Musées Royaux du Cinquantenaire à Bruxelles, Bruxelles 1923, 46 nº 162

Van dieren en mensen. Getuigenissen uit Prehistorie en Oudheid - Des animaux et des hommes. Témoignages de la Préhistoire et de l'Antiquité (Exposition), Bruxelles 1988, 178 nº 177

G. Pinch, Votive Offerings to Hathor, Oxford 1993, 111

KMKG - MRAH

Inventory number

E.2541

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clothing

UNSPECIFIED CLOTHING

WEST BANK

FLAX

WOVEN

19TH DYNASTY

Wsr-mAat-Ra stp-n-Ra

Imn mr  Ra-ms-ss

MUSEO ARCHEOLOGICO NAZIONALE/MUSEO EGIZIO [05/027]

Inventory number 7951

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cloth

 

This cloth, which was part of the É. de Meester de Ravestein collection, bears the mark of the temple of Mentuhotep II. A detailed examination has shown that the fringed selvage, a characteristic which one finds on several cloths of the same category (compare E.6855), was not only decorative but also essentially technological.

THEBES: WEST BANK: DEIR EL-BAHARI: TEMPLE OF MENTUHOTEP NEBHEPETRE

MIDDLE KINGDOM: 11TH DYNASTY: MENTUHOTEP II/NEBHEPETRE

KMKG - MRAH [07/003]

Inventory number E.6876

J. Capart, Bandelettes et linges de momie, BMRAH 13 (1941) 29

B. van de Walle, L. Limme et H. De Meulenaere, La collection égyptienne. Les étapes marquantes de son développement, Bruxelles 1980, 59

D. De Jonghe e.a., Linnen doeken en mummiewindels van het Oude Rijk en het Middenrijk, BMRAH 56,1 (1985) 5-31

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