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Description: | Textile medallion. Circle. Purple brown loops. UCC lab number 2789. Such medallions would have been used to decorate tunics in the first millennium A.D. 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 looped medallions dated to the 4th-7th century are found in Lewis, S. 1969 'Early Coptic Textiles'. See also Trilling, James, 1982 'The Roman heritage : textiles from Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean, 300-600 A.D.' Washington, D.C.- Textile Museum p93-94. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Temporal: | 300 AD B.C.-800 A.D.
Roman - Coptic | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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