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Description: | Textile medallion. Part of a round shaped woven piece woven into undyed linen. 7.5x11cm. Mainly red colours. A human face can be seen. Such medallions would have been used to decorate tunics in the first millennium A.D. By this period people were buried clothed. Such round medallions were called orbiculi. References Erikson, M. 1997. Textiles in Egypt 200-1500 AD in Swedish Museum Collections. Gothenburg: University of Gothenburg. Lewis, S. 1969 Early Coptic Textiles. Stanford: Stanford University. 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: University of Manchester. | 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.-641 A.D.
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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