Textile

Clavus

Neck Band

E16983B

From: Egypt | Fayum

Curatorial Section: Egyptian

Object Number E16983B
Current Location Collections Storage
Provenience Egypt | Fayum
Section Egyptian
Materials Wool
Description

Warp: \ wool; yellow.

Weft: \, \/ linen; tan: \ wool; mixed-red-purple, yellow.

Technique: Tapestry over one warp.

Wide neck band, fragmentary: two arcades of three arches each, one above the other with a narrow band carrying repeated conventional pattern below each. Arches filled by alternate types of symmetrical plant forms the flowers degenerated into head (?) or half animals (?). Clavi carry "hexagonal" interlace.

Length 35.3 cm
Width 37 cm
Credit Line Distribution from the Egyptian Research Account; William Flinders Petrie; subscription of Mrs. John Harrison, 1895

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