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Description: | Textile medallion showing quatrefoil heart-shaped floral rosette. Such medallions would have been used to decorate tunics in first millennium A.D. Egypt. See 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. Erikson (1997, 132-133) states that the heart-shaped quatrefoil flower has been considered tobe a lotus. It seems to have been significant in the Hellenistic-Roman cult of Isis and Dionysus and is also known in synagogues (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: | 395 A.D.-1000 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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