Kilt or Sash

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

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 36.3.174) 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 36.3.252). A number of burials were discovered on this hillside, including the tomb containing Senenmut's mother, Hatnefer (36.3.1), 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 chapel. The 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 detail.

Egyptian Art

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Met collection of ancient Egyptian art consists of approximately 30,000 objects of artistic, historical, and cultural importance, dating from about 300,000 BCE to the 4th century CE. A signifcant percentage of the collection is derived from the Museum's three decades of archaeological work in Egypt, initiated in 1906 in response to increasing interest in the culture of ancient Egypt.

Metropolitan Museum of Art