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Accession_Number 2005.7.11
Shape Textile
Shape_description Sub-rectlinear textile fragment
Material Linen; wool
Fabric
Fabric_description Yellow-brown wool (weft) and unbleached linen (warp) ground weave with area of darning executed in blue-red wool.
Munsell_color
Decoration 50% darned area
Inscriptions
Condition Frgament. Good
Technique/Style Tabby; inlaid threads or darning
Provenance Unknown
Period Early Islamic
Date 7-10 c. AD
Dating_details Dating not certain
Artist
Attribution
Image

2005.95.0004.jpg
Top view of a textile fragment.

2005.95.0005.jpg
Top view of a textile fragment.

2005.95.0006.jpg
Top view of a textile fragment.

2008.07.0023.jpg
Top view of a textile fragment comprised of wool and linen, with an area of darning executed in blue-red wool.

2012.97.0014.jpg
Top view of a textile fragment comprised of wool and linen, with an area of darning executed in blue-red wool.
Comparanda
Bibliography A.L. Harris, "Recent Acquisitions and Conservation of Antiquities at the Ure Museum, University of Reading 2004-2008," Archaeological Reports 2007-2008 (2008) 182 fig. 16.
Archive_Ref
Beazley_DB
Height
Diameters
Handle_height
Other_dims. L. 15.0; W. 11.0
Location Coptic textiles
Edited_by Anthea Harris; Kinsey; Joana Varela
Date_edited 31.07.2005; 11.01.2006; 06.01.2009; 18.04.2017
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