 IAA Number: 2014-9465
 | Object's Name: Fragment Textile
Period: Iron I
Material: Wool
Site: Timna`
Lenght: 3.5 cm
Wide: 3.6 cm
Description: Fragment of wool textile with red and blue bands which made by and
indigotin plants (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
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