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MAS.810

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Title

A shoe made of hemp with 1/1 weft twining method. The heel and the flat front have worn out already. Weave structures: Warp: hemp, invisible; Twining weft: hemp, Z-2S ply, undyed, 22 lats/cm. Weave structure: 1/1 weft twining method.;____1/1_______________________________________ _____ ________________S__Z_______22_/cm____1/1______

Date

100 BCE to 199 CE

Find site

Dunhuang Limes

Measurement

height 10 centimetres, width 4.3 centimetres

Description

Scope and content : A shoe made of hemp with 1/1 weft twining method. The heel and the flat front have worn out already. Weave structures: Warp: hemp, invisible; Twining weft: hemp, Z-2S ply, undyed, 22 lats/cm. Weave structure: 1/1 weft twining method.;____1/1_______________________________________ _____ ________________S__Z_______22_/cm____1/1______

Institution

British Museum

Provenance

Stein 1906-8

Find site identifier

DHL.

Stein site number

T.XVIII.iii.001

Find site description

Chinese Han-dynasty defensive structures (walls, forts, beacon towers etc) runnning north of Dunhuang in the Gobi desert.

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