
Courtesy of National Museums Liverpool, World Museum
Weaving Tool
56.21.839
This appears to be a tool used for weaving textiles on a loom, sometimes called a ‘pin beater’. This bone tool was used to push up the weft yarns to create tighter fabric. From the 1924 excavations of the Egypt Exploration Society at the royal city of Tell el-Amarna, which flourished during the reign of King Akhenaten in the 18th Dynasty.
CONDITION NOTE (1998): Broken, incomplete, splitting, surface dirt.