Coptic textile fragment, unknown maker from Egypt

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Coptic textile fragment
Coptic textile fragment
Coptic textile fragment
Coptic period (300 CE–700 CE)
Coptic textile fragment , Coptic period (300 CE–700 CE)
Where object was made: Egypt
Material/technique: wool; linen
Credit line: William Bridges Thayer Memorial
Accession number: 1928.0125
Not on display
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Teaching Gallery: Coptic Textiles
Due to the double-cross bars in between each duck this may be a Christian textile. Two of the edges of the textile are a wavy design known as “running dog.” What is the relationship between the double-cross bars and Christianity? Why are the two connected? What is “running dog” symbolic of? Is it symbolic of something?

Exhibitions

Teaching Gallery: Coptic Textiles
Tashia Dare, curator
2012
Teaching Gallery: History of Textiles
2010
Medieval Art
1965

Citations

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