Author
Unknown (maker)
Publication Place
Egypt (made) Akhmim (Found) -
Subject
Archaeology Death Africa
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Length: 330mm, Centre circumference: 150mm
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
8-1888
Record ID
8-1888
Library Location
Middle East Section
Notes
This object may have been a fillet, but may alternatively have been a burial cushion.
İlişki
Henry Wallis
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Leather wrapped linen and hair, with gilded and openwork decoration Leather Gold Leaf Linen Hair Tanning Gilding Openwork
Fiziksel açıklama
Fillet or headrest. The body is a rounded, crescent-shaped black-brown leather pad with tapering ends, stuffed with fine golden-brown hair wrapped in a finely-woven linen. The leather is particularly watermarked and blackened at one end, and broken between the central and left crosses, to reveal the linen beneath. The surface of the leather is pierced with three medalions of openwork decoration, each representing a cross pattée within a circle, surrounded by a border of eyelets, showing gilt leather underneath. The tips of the fillet are decorated with a large openworked triangle, with smaller long triangles and a circle above it.
Üslup
Egyptian Late Antique
