A LARGE COPTIC TEXTILE FRAGMENT OF A FIGURE

CIRCA 5TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.

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A LARGE COPTIC TEXTILE FRAGMENT OF A FIGURE
CIRCA 5TH-7TH CENTURY A.D.
Cut-out probably from a curtain or hanging, in dark brown, standing with curly hair holding a red-flowering plant with green leaves in upraised right hand, a foliate bunch possibly added later in left hand, some restoration, framed
Textile 24¼ in. (61.5 cm.) high

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Conserved at the British Museum, London, 1972.
Cf. Trilling, The Roman Heritage: textiles from Egypt and the Eastern Mediterranean 300 to 600 AD, The Textile Museum, Washington D. C., 1982, p. 57, no. 42 for a similar figure.

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