doll; Karanis; Dolls; Toys; Plant materials; Wool

Notes:

Gold, blue, brown, dark brown, and red. Fair condition. Head gold thread wrapped with blue in rings around two red yarn eyes(?). Neck tied with gold thread. Body strings and cloth strips.; Small doll made from two different woven wool fabrics.; Fragment A - brown warp, purple weft; Fragment B - yellow wrap, blue weft. Wefts encircle a pair of edge warps at the back of the doll. Selvedge or tapestry?; Fragment A and a small strip of fragment B were each folded over a small group of red yarns to form “eyes”. Another piece of fragment B was folded over the two “eyes”. The fragments were secured by a yellowed yarn that was wrapped twice around the doll’s neck. There is a remnant of a red yarn with a knot at one end just under the outer layer.

Data Provider:

University of Michigan. Libraries

Collection:

Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Subject Topic:

Karanis; Dolls; Toys; Egypt

Language:

UND

Rights:

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URL:

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