Details
A GROUP OF TEXTILES FROM VARIOUS PERIODS, comprising six large folded plain linen cloth fragments with fringed or blue banded edges; three small fragments with foliate or pomegranate decoration woven in blue or red, reputedly from Lahun -- 4in. (10cm.) sq. max.; and a Roman textile border fragment woven with red, blue, yellow and green geometric decoration -- 14 x 2½in. (35 x 6.4cm.), 1700 BC and later (10)
Provenance
Acquired by Guy Brunton OBE, former Keeper of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo, who worked in excavations alongside Flinders Petrie and R. Engelbach. Cf. W. M. F. Petrie, Seventy Years in Archaeology, 1932 for a discussion of Brunton's work with Petrie in Lahun.