Basket

Made of strips of papyrus laid side by side and bound together with twisted strips of the same material, this was found with a cache of mummification material. The rim of the basket is made of two narrow strips of papyrus bark twisted together, to which the tops of the binding strips are tied. At the edges, the horizontal strips on each side are bent inwards and placed against one another, and the last transverse binding strip on each wall passed around the turned-in end of the horizontal strip of the other wall, before being carried up and over the next strip of its own wall -- thus sewing the walls of the basket together.

The basket is equipped with a loop handle of 2-ply grass rope, tied to the rim at a distance of 14cm from one side and 9cm from the other. The mouth of the basket was originally sealed up with mud, pieces of which were still stuck to the rim when it was excavated.