 IAA Number: 2014-9255
 | Object's Name: Fragment Textile
Period: Iron I
Material: Wool
Site: Timna`
Lenght: 7 cm
Wide: 2.3 cm
Description: Fragment of wool textile with red, blue and orange bands which
was made by Madder (Rubia tinctorum) and indigotin
(probably from Woad - Isatis tinctorial). The findings indicate that
the society at Timna was hierarchical and included an upper class.
Bibliography: Sukenik, N., Iluz, D., Amar, Z., Varvak, A., Workman V., Shamir, O. and Ben-Yos 2017. "Early evidence (late 2nd millennium BCE) of plant-based dyeing of textiles from Timna, Israel", [PLOS ONE 12 (2017): e0179014]. PLOS One fig. 2-3.
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