Toy, doll; Karanis; Dolls; Toys; Wool; Human
Brown, gold and gray cloth bound with yellow string. Poor condition. Two strips of cloth folded to make a head sit inside cloth body, which is wrapped with the yellow string, an extra loop of it hangs at the neck. Mud caked onto the back.; Doll made from four fragments of woven wool fabric.; Fragment A - very loosely attached; yellowed warp, blue weft. Possibly outer layer.; Fragment B - yellowed warp and weft with 0.6 cm of purple/red weft band. More purple weft band has been folded under. There is a remnant of a weft-twining row. The twining loops pass over three warps.; Fragment C - yellowed warp, purple weft; Fragment D - yellowed warp, purple weft, with 1.2 cm of yellowed weft along one edge.; Fragments B and C were folded over each other. Fragment A was, possibly folded over fragment B but is now almost detached. Fragment D was wrapped around the others, leaving only the doll’s “head” visible. A 12 strand cord was wrapped around fragment D.
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