Kilt or Sash ca. 1479–1458 New Kingdom This length of cloth has a woven selvage along one side. The other side and both ends are finished with rolled hems. There is also a weaver's mark woven into one corner of the fabric. Theis is probably a garment that was tied around the waist as a sash or a kilt and it was found with a shirt (similar to ) in a bundle of linen that was placed inside the coffin of a middle-aged man whose name was not preserved. He had been buried on the hillside below the tomb of Senenmut (see ). A number of burials were discovered on this hillside, inc


Kilt or Sash ca. 1479–1458 New Kingdom This length of cloth has a woven selvage along one side. The other side and both ends are finished with rolled hems. There is also a weaver's mark woven into one corner of the fabric. Theis is probably a garment that was tied around the waist as a sash or a kilt and it was found with a shirt (similar to ) in a bundle of linen that was placed inside the coffin of a middle-aged man whose name was not preserved. He had been buried on the hillside below the tomb of Senenmut (see ). A number of burials were discovered on this hillside, including the tomb containing Senenmut's mother, Hatnefer (), his father, Ramose, and six other family members. It is possible that the un-named middle-aged man was another relative or a member of Senenmut's household who was buried where his spirit could benefit from the daily offerings that would be presented at Senenmut's offering shirt and kilt may have been worn together in a fashion similar to the seated man and scribe in the detail of a facsimile shown here. Or the kilt length might have been worn over a loin cloth as shown on the standing men in the Kilt or Sash 548738


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