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Description: | Fragment of a square medallion of brown-purple wool on undyed linen. The design shows crouching animals and a plant. The tongues of the animals are picked out in red. Such medallions were used to decorate tunics in the first millennium AD. This looks similar to Byzantine pieces 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 see page 60, 62, fig. 4.11). T. A similar item appears in Lewis, S. 1969 'Early Coptic Textiles' p34 pl. 73 and is dated to the 6th century and another in Caroll, D.L. 1988. 'Looms and Textiles of the Copts' 116-118 and is also dated to the 6th century. Square shapes such as these were used to decorate linen tunics in the 1st millennium AD. The Early Roman Period saw use of monochrome decoration, brown/purple wool on a linen background). From around the 6th century AD other colours were increasingly used in the designs. | 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-600 AD
First millennium A.D.
Byzantine | Source: | Egypt Centre | Identifier: | http://www.egyptcentre.org.uk/index.asp?... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | text/html | Go to resource |
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