The spearhead shape encloses a network of foliated scrolls and stylised green and yellow vine leaves, surrounded by a red ribbon and a frieze of purplish wave scrolls that unfold in a different direction on each side.
Origin:
Egypt
Date:
5th - 6th century
Material:
Linen and wool
Dimensions:
Warp: 8.5 cm, weft: 16 cm
Comparisons:
Ethnographic Museum, Stockholm, inv. MME 1969:736.
V&A, London, inv. 75-1886.
Louvre, inv. X 4905.
Rietberg Museum, Zurich, inv. RGa 632.
Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, inv. Ko 169.
Form and treatment of this textile are similar to the decoration of a woman’s mantle discovered in tomb C370 in Antinopolis, dated between the end of the 5th and early 7th century.
Provenance:
Collection Coptic textiles Fill-Trevisiol: donation
Location:
Musée royal de Mariemont
Inwoven (?) linen and woollen tapestry
I. No ground weave
II. Tapestry areas
Warp:
natural-coloured linen S
Weft:
red, yellow, purple, green, orange wool S: +/- 50/cm; natural-coloured linen S: +/- 40/cm
Weave:
extended tabby 2/2
Ribs per cm:
7-8
Special techniques:
slit tapestry, eccentric weft