Lot 99
99
A LARGE COPTIC WOOL AND LINEN TEXTILE HANGING FRAGMENT OF A BEARDED MAN
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A LARGE COPTIC WOOL AND LINEN TEXTILE HANGING FRAGMENT OF A BEARDED MAN

4TH CENTURY A.D.

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A LARGE COPTIC WOOL AND LINEN TEXTILE HANGING FRAGMENT OF A BEARDED MAN
4TH CENTURY A.D.
With details in vibrant colour, the balding figure with gaze to right, bearded with grey hair, a sickle over his right shoulder, wearing short tunic, flanked on either side by columns with yellow foliate capitals, stitched to canvas mount on wood frame
52¾ x 40 1/8 in. (134 x 102 cm.) max.
Provenance
Acquired from a European private collection in 1985.
Special notice
VAT rate of 5% is payable on hammer price plus buyer's premium.

Lot Essay

Cf. S. Schrenk, Textilien des Mittelmeerraumes aus spätantiker bis frühislamischer Zeit, Abegg-Stiftung, Riggisberg, 2004, pp. 26-34, no. 1 for a large arcaded figurative panel with bearded figure of similar type. It is suggested that this may represent Silenus and the panel depicts Dionysos and his followers, or the initiation ceremony of a new member of the Dionysian cult.

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