Karanis?; Textiles
Fragment of a woven wool tapestry with brown warp and red, black, purple, blue, green/blue, olive green, white and yellow weft. A row of eight multi-colored birds, outlined in black, crosses the center of the fragment. Above and below the birds there are red bands with a row of small black diamonds outlined in white. There is a border of warp loops enclosing three white yarns (two are zzS, the third is two zzS yarns that have been Z-twisted together) along the edge below the birds. There are six picks of yellow weft between the red bands and the border. Along the opposite edge there is a section with a very crude finish of overcast white stitches which enclose two white yarns across the edge. The balance of this edge is unfinished with loose warps that are up to 3 cm long. The two warp-wise edges have plain selvedges. The warp and most of the weft yarns are plied.
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