Textile

E17195.1

From: Egypt | Fayum

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

Object Number E17195.1
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt | Fayum
Section Egyptian
Materials Linen | Wool
Description

Warp: \ wool; apricot

Weft: \ linen; ud: \ wool; grey and pink-purple, red, blue and apricot.

Technique: Tapestry over one warp.

Plain edge, crested border. Series of roundels alt with arch. Roundels filled with radiating plant forms ? In the arch a flowering plant growing from a vase.

One human figure in the branches, two others flank the vase.

Length 21 cm
Width 53 cm
Credit Line Distribution from the Egyptian Research Account; William Flinders Petrie; subscription of Mrs. John Harrison, 1895

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