Fragment / textile

Description

Textile fragment of woven linen and silk, with decorative bands including kufic inscriptions reading 'Victory comes from God': Egyptian, Akhmim, Fatimid, late 5th - early 6th century AH / 12th century AD

Museum reference

A.1911.268

Collection

World Culture

Object name

Fragment / textile

Production information

Akhmim, Upper Egypt, Egypt, Northern Africa

Date

12th century
Late 5th - early 7th century AH

Style / Culture

Late Fatimite Period

Materials

Linen, Silk

Physical description

Linen woven with linen thread and coloured silks

Associations

Hilton Price Collection
Collector: Hilton Price, Frederick George, 1842 - 1909

Exhibitions

• Ancient Egypt Rediscovered (08 Feb 2019)
  National Museum of Scotland

• Discover Islamic Art (01 Dec 2005)
  World Wide Web

References

Tissus d'Egypte: Temoins du Monde Arabe VIIIe - XVe siecles. Collection Bouvier, Geneva and Paris, 1993, pp. 244-45, no [For a stylistically related fragment dated to the first half of the 12th century AD]

Links to other web pages

MWNF

On display

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