1902.31.19

Collection type

Object

Description

Wooden weaving comb.

Long description

Wooden weaving comb. The comb is a block with the teeth cut out of one side edge. The block is made of two pieces of wood and two wooden pegs emerge from one end. [MJD (Verve) 16/2/2016]

Geographical reference

Egypt

Africa > Northern Africa > Egypt

Fayum [Al-Fayyum]

Person

Field collector Bernard Pyne Grenfell

Field collector Arthur Surridge Hunt

PRM source Committee of the Egypt Exploration Fund

Date / Period

Archaeological period: Ancient Egyptian Greco Roman, uncertain

Date collected

1901-2

Acquisition information

Donated: 09/1902

Materials and processes

Material Wood Plant, Process Carved, Process Carpentered

Dimensions

Length x Width x Depth 128 x 116 x 27 mm

Object numbers

Accession number: 1902.31.19

Research and responses

In the season 1901-1902 Flinders Petrie was working at Abydos in Upper Egypt, but his colleagues Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur Hunt were working in the Fayum for the Egypt Exploration Fund, where they excavated several cemeteries. Their primary interest was in Greek and Roman papyri and so other artefact types went largely unrecorded. For their account of the season's work, see ‘B.—Graeco-Roman Branch. Excavations in the Fayûm and at El Hîbeh’, by Bernard P. Grenfell and Arthur S. Hunt, in F. L. Griffith (ed.), Archaeological Report, 1901–1902: Comprising the Work of the Egypt Exploration Fund and the Progress of Egyptology During the Year, 1901–1902 (London: Egypt Exploration Fund [1902]), pp. 2–5. (Photocopy in RDF.) [AS 09/07/2012; JC 22 7 2016]

Search terms: Textile, Death, Religion, Weaving Accessory, Grave Good