Ure Museum | Database

Accession_Number

2005.7.2

Shape

Textile

Shape_description

Medallion-shaped textile

Material

Linen; wool

Fabric

Fabric_description

Unbleached linen ground weave with areas of tapestry in red-blue wool and linen threads

Munsell_color

Decoration

Stylized tree ('Tree of Life'?) design in central roundel, surrounded by solid circular band.

Inscriptions

Condition

Fragment. Good. 25% of border is missing; some distortion of weave

Technique/Style

Tabby; tapestry; floating weft; dovetailing

Provenance

Akhmim, Egypt

Period

Early Byzantine

Date

4-6 c. AD

Dating_details

Artist

Attribution

Image

2002.99.0048.jpg	Top view of medallion-shaped textile fragment with 'tree of life' design (before conservation).
2008.07.0001.jpg	Top view of medallion-shaped textile fragment with 'tree of life' design.
2008.07.0014.jpg	Top view of medallion-shaped textile fragment with 'tree of life' design.
2012.97.0012.jpg	Top view of medallion-shaped textile fragment with 'tree of life' design.
2013.01.0002.jpg	Top view of a coptic textile fragment with a stylised tree.
2013.02.0009.jpg	Top view of a Circular medallion with tree motif; tapestry weave; undyed linen and maroon wool, supplementary weft; some cut edges Light surface soils; light staining; some worn wool threads
2013.02.0010.jpg	Top view of medallion-shaped textile fragment with 'tree of life' design.
2013.03.0018.jpg	Box of coptic textile after treatment.
2013.03.0019.jpg	Open box of the tree of life textile fragment after conservation process.
2013.03.0020.jpg	Open box showing the textile fragment after conservation process.
2013.03.0021.jpg	Reversed object after conservation process inside an open box.