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Accession_Number 2005.7.18
Shape Textile
Shape_description Rectilinear textile fragment
Material Linen
Fabric
Fabric_description Narrow braided linen ribbon with and unbleached and orange-pink linen threads
Munsell_color
Decoration Orange-pink and unbleached weft threads
Inscriptions
Condition Frgament. Good
Technique/Style Tabby
Provenance Unknown
Period Islamic / Modern
Date 7 c. AD or later
Dating_details Perhaps modern
Artist
Attribution
Image

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Top view of a coptic textile fragment before conservation process. It consists of a narrow warp faced braid with small repeat pattern in red wool and un-dyed plant fibre(?)(continuous panel but image shown here in 2 parts) Light surface soils;...

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Top view of a coptic textile fragment before conservation process. It consists of a narrow warp faced braid with small repeat pattern in red wool and un-dyed plant fibre(?)(continuous panel but image shown here in 2 parts) Light surface soils;...

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Close up of a textile fragment during the conservation process.

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Textile fragment undergoing conservation process.

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Mounted box enclosing a textile fragment after conservation process.

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Mounted object inside the box after conservation process.

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Open box containing textile fragment mounted after conservation process.

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Reversed object, mounted after conservation process.
Comparanda
Bibliography
Archive_Ref
Beazley_DB
Height
Diameters
Handle_height
Other_dims. 48.0; 0.8
Location Coptic textiles
Edited_by Anthea Harris; Kinsey; Joana Varela
Date_edited 31.07.2005; 11.01.2006; 20.04.2017
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