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Description: | Textile medallion. Square. Purple brown wool on undyed linen. 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. Lewis, S. 1969, 'Early Coptic Textiles', 64-66 dates such medallions with the band of 'rosettes' around the exterior 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: | 500 AD-800 AD
Roman Period | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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