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Rome256
Alexandria, Egypt218
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Elagabalus98
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aureus
Coin

Denomination: aureus

Date(s): 2 BCE - AD 4

Issuer/creator: Augustus (27 BC-AD 14)

Place: Lyons

Material: gold

mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

c. 2500 BCE

Fragment of coarse plain woven cloth. Light brown colour with darker brown stripes formed by double weft threads which are not at standard intervals. Very creased. This is a wrapping from the mumm...

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cloth fragment
Textile

cloth fragment

c. 3900 BCE

Cloth fragment from grave 45 at Tarkhan, excavated by Petrie.

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cloth fragment
Textile

cloth fragment

c. 4400 BCE

Cloth fragment from mastaba (tomb) 2050 at Tarkhan, excavated by Petrie. Plain woven with one edge turned under and slip stitched with a single linen thread, into position. The turning appears to be ...

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cloth fragment
Textile

cloth fragment

c. 766 BCE

Cloth fragment from the cemetery at Tarkhan excavated by Petrie.

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mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

c. 2500 BCE

Fragment of cream coloured, fine, plain woven cloth. This is a wrapping from the mummy of Nekht-Ankh. The tomb of Khnum-Nakht and Nekht-Ankh in Der Rifeh, was excavated in 1907. Inscriptions in th...

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mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Fragment of fine, mid brown, plain woven fabric.

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mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Rectangular fragment of fine, mid-dark brown, plain woven fabric.

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mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Fragment of fine, mid-dark brown, plain woven fabric.

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mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Fragment of fine, cream/light brown, plain woven fabric. With dark brown staining around part of the edge.

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mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Fragment of fine, light-mid brown, plain woven fabric. This fragment includes part of the selvedge.

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mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Rectangular fragment of fine, cream/light brown, plain woven fabric. The fragment has five blue weft thread stripes at one edge formed of 8, 3, 3, 3 and 6 threads.

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