Author
Unknown (maker)
Publication Place
Egypt (made) Akhmim (found) -
Subject
Textiles Africa
Type
Other
Language
Undetermined
Digital
Yes
Manuscript
No
Physical Dimensions
Length: 17.5 "in, Width: 17.5in, Roundel diameter: 22in
Library
Victoria and Albert Museum
Library Asset ID
280-1889
Record ID
280-1889
Library Location
Middle East Section
Notes
Portion of a linen cloth, faced with loops, with a roundel (incomplete) woven in loops of coloured wools. Female figure (a Maenad?) wearing necklace and bracelet and brandishing a ewer.
İlişki
Chester
Malzemeler ve teknikler
Plain woven linen with looped linen and wool pile Linen Wool Plain Weave Looped Pile
Fiziksel açıklama
Fragment of a plain woven undyed linen cloth, possibly a hanging or cover. Selfbands run at regular intervals through the ground fabric (a band of three-four wefts every four picks). Additional decoration has been created with looped pile, formed from picks of dyed woolen weft woven into the ground fabric. The pile decoration consists of a purple-brown wool medallion, with an inner scalloped border of undyed linen loops. Much of the wool from the medallion has pulled away. The ground of the medallion is further decorated with diamond-shaped clusters of undyed linen loops. In the centre of the medallion is a figure, with the skin shaded and highlighted in several shades of pink. The facial features such as eyes, lips and eyebrows have been picked out with white, purple and blue wool, and the hair in yellow and red-brown wool. The figure wears a a red and yellow necklace and green, red, pink and yellow bracelet, and has one arm raised brandishing a grey (for silver?) ewer. The entire ground fabric surrounding the medallion is covered with loops of undyed linen.
Üretim
A piece of similar composition, without the central figure, in the Reitz collection; see D.L. Carroll, Looms and Textiles of the Copts (California, 1986), 96 No. 11. This piece is identified as a pallium fragment.
Üslup
Late Antique
