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Inventory number: FT 153
Central medallion shows an allegory of the Earth, richly adorned with jewels. In the corners of the pale square are three peacocks and a bird. Red medallions decorate the (patched) border, with highly stylised acanthus foliated scrolls (upper section) and rosettes (lower section), with cockerels in the axes (cf FT 72).
Origin:
Egypt
Date:
6th - 7th century
Material:
Linen and wool
Dimensions:
28 x 30 cm
Comparisons:
Cf. FT 72.
Louvre, inv. AF 5982.
Private coll., inv. DM 99.
The iconography of the female figure is inherited from Roman imperial and funerary imagines clipeatae.
Provenance:
Collection Coptic textiles Fill-Trevisiol: donation
Location:
Musée royal de Mariemont