Gebel Adda was located in Lower Nubia, on the eastern bank of the Nile, ca. 300 km south of Aswan. During the medieval period, it was an important administrative centre of the Christian kingdom of Makuria and, in 1365 CE, it became the new royal residence. The site was explored in the 1960ies during the Nubian Campaign, but the excavations have only been partially published. An important part of the archives and most of the textiles (retrieved from burials) are housed today in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto. Some pieces are also in the collections of the Nubia Museum, Aswan. However, the location of the anthropological documentation remains unknown. This paper offers a tentative reconstruction of the textile layers in four elite burials dated to the 14th c. CE, based on the available archaeological records and archival documentation. It aims at demonstrating the importance of a detailed study of the burials to detect the differences in treatment and installation of the bodies in the crypts and, linking the results of the analysis with the historical context, formulate an hypothesis about the identity of Gapoiapa.