Balls of Thread on Pieces of Pottery
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A short note describing X-ray photographs of two balls of linen thread in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, dated to about 1200-1000 B.C. (Twentieth to Twenty-second Dynasties). The X-rays show that the Egyptians wound thread around small pottery fragments used as cores. The author notes similar worked potsherds found without thread at Lisht, and a thumb-hole in the smaller ball. A plate of six photographs shows the balls and their X-rays.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- 1918
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 2
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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