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Description: | Textile medallion. Square shape, tapestry woven. Purple-brown wool on undyed linen. Interlace pattern. Such medallions would have been used to decorate tunics in first millennium A.D. Egypt. This is similar in design to the Late Roman medallions illustrated in Pritchard, F. 2004 'Clothing Culture. Dress in Egypt in the First millennium AD. Clothing from Egypt in the collection of The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester.' Manchester. Similar medallions dated to the 5th-6th century are found in Lewis, S. 1969 'Early Coptic Textiles'. The fine network of threads skipping over several warps is called 'flying threads' or 'flying shuttle' and were thought be Petrie to represent embroidery. Often the work is so fine that they may have been woven in by fingers (Erikson 1997, 79-82). (Erikson, M. 1997 'Textiles in Egypt 200-1500 AD in Swedish Collections' University of Gottenburg). | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Temporal: | 400 A.D.-700 A.D.
Roman Period, Late | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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