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Provenance
Qasr Ibrim
Region
Nobadia
Findspot
tomb T2 (296), south of cathedral (church 293)
Excavation no.
QI.T/148
Present location
unknown
Museum no.
 
Medium
textile
Technique
painted
Type of text
legend
Language
unidentified
Content
inscription accompanying paintings on textile, perhaps legends
Date
900–1499
Notes
possibly Old Nubian
Material
flax
Object dimensions
H: 25; W: 39.4
Text dimensions
1: H: 7; W: 7.8
2: H: 5.5; W: 12.5
Object colour
 
Text colour
black
Lines
2
Height of letters
 
Description
small fragment of textile (labelled as 'flag' by excavators); 2 inscriptions placed below painting as if being legends to the depiction above
Decorative elements
unidentified paining in black and yellow
State of preservation
object fragmentary; inscripion incomplete (?)
Date
900–1499
Chronological systems
 
Dating formulae
 
Transcription
 
Months
 
Weakdays
 
Feasts
 
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Offices & titles
 
Toponyms & ethnonyms
 
Source
Crowfoot (E.) 2011, pl. 7d
Image
Image not available
Source
 
Image
Image not available
Latest edition
unpublished; mentioned in Crowfoot (E.) 2011, p. 19, pl. 7d
Other editions
 
Other publications
Plumley 1983, p. 163; Welsby 2002, p. 82
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