Egyptian

An Egyptian 'Coptic' textile fragment, circa 4th - 7th century AD

Wool, linen

Framed size: 36.5 cm x 21 cm

Egyptian, An Egyptian 'Coptic' textile fragment, circa 4th - 7th century AD

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Preserving in brown-purple wool on a cream linen ground. The rectangular panel shows six dancing figures in three registers, within an aedicula. The figures probably represent Dionysiac subjects.

Provenance

Swiss private collection, acquired in the 1950s

Literature

For discussion of such Dionysiac/Bacchic dancers and other tapestry weave work with dancing figures see E. Dauterman Maguire, Weavings from Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Egypt, Illinois, 1996, pp. 87 - 93; nos. B6-B7.

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