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Description: | Textile medallion. Mounted. Square. Purple-brown wool on undyed linen. Interlace pattern forming lozenges. 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 medallions are found in Lewis, S. 1969 'Early Coptic Textiles'. See especially p. 31, pl. 25 dated to the 6th century. | Format: | text/html | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Rights holder: | University of Swansea, Egypt Centre | Subjects: | [none] | Temporal: | 300 A.D.-641 A.D.
Roman, 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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