Objects found in 1921 on the site of the Akhetaken (modern Amarna)

Made:
1370-1350 BCE in Amarna

Objects found in 1921 on the site of the Akhetaten (modern Amarna) Upper Egypt, date 1375-1350 BCE.

Details

Category:
Textiles Machinery
Object Number:
1921-425
type:
collections
credit:
Egypt Exploration Society

Parts

Box containing scraps of cloth and thread

Box containing scraps of cloth and thread

A box containingf scraps of cloth and thread found in a shaft-tomb on hill top behind the tomb- chapel 525.consisting of :- Six small crumpled pieces of tabby- weave linen cloth, one folded into a narrow strip. Two similar pieces of unevenly woven woolen textile. One piece of more finely woven but now more brittle woolen textile. A skein of finely spun linen thread, neatly cut at both ends (probab...

Object Number:
1921-425/3
type:
ancient cloth and thread
Spacer for hind legs of slaughtered animals

Spacer for hind legs of slaughtered animals

Spacer for hind legs of slaughtered animals. Found in 1921 on the site of the Akhetaten (modern Amarna) Upper Egypt. Date: 1375 - 1350 B.C.

Object Number:
1921-425/5
type:
spacer
Egyptian beam scale balance

Egyptian beam scale balance

Egyptian wood balance beam, B.C. 1370-1350, 5" long with flared ends, bored axially at ends and vertically at centre for improved type suspensions. (Found in 1921 on the site of the Akhetaten [modern Amarna] Upper Egypt), founded by the Pharaoh Akenaten

Object Number:
1921-425/6
type:
beamscale
Square board with a hole drilled through each corner

Square board with a hole drilled through each corner

Object found in 1921 on the site of the Akhetaten (modern Amarna) Upper Egypt, date 1375-1350 BCE. Square board with four holes, one in each corner.

Object Number:
1921-425/7
type:
board