Textiles CHAPrER 10 Amarna Project（纺织品CHAPrER 10阿玛纳的项目）.pdf

Textiles CHAPrER 10 PREIJllINARY REPORT ON THE TEXTILES by Gillian II. East.wood 10.1 Introduction The excavations at the Workmens Village have provided a unique collection of domestic textiles from the Pharaonic period . Their uniqueness lies not only in the quantity recorded , but also in their having come from well recorded provenances set with in a secure dating sequence. As such they will form an invaluable basis for any h istory of early Egyptian textiles and the textile industry. The- following report is intended to be a preliminary survey of the four thousand textiles excavated at the site between 1979 and 1984. It is planned that a more detailed study of both the textiles and related objects, such as spindles, spinning bowls and loom parts, will be published after the excavations at the Village have been completed. As with many of the other categories of objects found at Arnarna, the textiles have been recorded in a tabular form suitable for computerisation. The listed te chnical information has been d ivided into eleven variables, which, in addition to information on provenance, comprise : fibre type, spin direction, tightness or angle of spin, yarn d iameter (mm.), thread count {per cm.), maximum size, general comments and whether or not a fibre sample had been taken . [ l] Apart from some minor alterations to the basic form, this system will be used to record the textiles from future excavations at the site. Most of the textiles cam