KASTELLI, Chania - 2006

Kastelli. †Y. Spantidaki and Chr. Moulherat (Paris) report on the results of the examination by scanning electron microscope of a small strip of cloth (Figs 1-2) from the Ag. Aikaterina Square excavations in 2006. The cloth was found inside a tripod pyxis on the floor of room C, house IV, a building which, like all its contemporaries, was destroyed by a fierce fire in LMIB. The fibres used in its manufacture are identified as linen for the warp (Fig. 3) and goat’s hair for the weft (Fig. 4), with a supplementary thread of nettle fibres (Fig. 5).