Coptic textile fragment, unknown maker from Egypt

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Coptic textile fragment
Coptic textile fragment
Coptic textile fragment
circa 500s–700s CE
Coptic textile fragment , circa 500s–700s CE
Where object was made: Egypt
Material/technique: linen; wool
Dimensions:
Object Length/Width (Length x Width): 17.8 x 15.9 cm
Object Length/Width (Length x Width): 6 1/4 x 7 1/2 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 25 x 20 in
Credit line: William Bridges Thayer Memorial
Accession number: 1928.0123
Not on display
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Teaching Gallery: Coptic Textiles
In the center of the textile is a Nereid, a sea nymph from Greek mythology associated with Dionysus, seated on a fish with another fish near the Nereid’s left hand. The squares form a cross shape (cruciform) with lozenges (rhomboidal diamonds) in each of the squares. This fragment may have been part of a tunic or larger textile.

Exhibitions

Teaching Gallery: Coptic Textiles
Tashia Dare, curator
2012
Teaching Gallery: History of Textiles
2010
From the Collection of the University of Kansas
1971

Citations

Youle, Randolph A., and John W. Ittmans, Charles C. Eldredge. From the Collection of the University of Kansas Museum of Art, April 15 - June 13, 1971. Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, 1971.

Stokstad, Marilyn, ed. The Handbook of the Museum of Art. Lawrence, Kansas: The University of Kansas, 1962.

The Medieval Collections of the Museum of Art. Lawrence, Kansas: The University of Kansas Museum of Art, 1963.