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https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.47598#0180
Pile technique in vivid colours is represented by a few instances. Decorations are few and simple,
often consisting only of yellow, dark brown or sometimes red or blue stripes of weft or warp.
Some 40 textiles, all of camel wool, show tapestry decoration with simple figures, most of them
entirely different from those ordinarily found in Egypt. Only very few seem to betray an influence
from Egypt, the others obviously representing purely Nubian handicraft and designs.
Thus this textile material — simple, and alas, very time-consuming for the conservators — gives
a new glimpse of independent Nubian traditions in a field where one would have expected a large
number of importations and a strong influence from Egypt. This addition to our knowledge of the
cultural interrelations in the Nile valley during the Late Nubian period may be the reward for all
the efforts by our specialists to save a brittle and not very splendid material from destruction or
neglect which has been the fate of many earlier similar finds.
often consisting only of yellow, dark brown or sometimes red or blue stripes of weft or warp.
Some 40 textiles, all of camel wool, show tapestry decoration with simple figures, most of them
entirely different from those ordinarily found in Egypt. Only very few seem to betray an influence
from Egypt, the others obviously representing purely Nubian handicraft and designs.
Thus this textile material — simple, and alas, very time-consuming for the conservators — gives
a new glimpse of independent Nubian traditions in a field where one would have expected a large
number of importations and a strong influence from Egypt. This addition to our knowledge of the
cultural interrelations in the Nile valley during the Late Nubian period may be the reward for all
the efforts by our specialists to save a brittle and not very splendid material from destruction or
neglect which has been the fate of many earlier similar finds.