Roughly rectangular, cream-coloured, tabby-woven Coptic(?) linen fragment decorated with red and blue embroidery. 2 small sections of one of the longer sides of the textile appear to show selvedge. The embroidery consists of a band either side of a centre panel decorated with 5 large cruciform motifs. The central one is red, surrounded by a blue one in each corner. Smaller red and blue motifs are dotted across the panel. One border contains reciprocal dentate bands in red separated by a blue zigzag. Each triangular element appears to contain a trefoil motif. The remnants of the other border appears to contain a red lattice with each field decorated with either a blue diamond or triangular motif.
textile fragment; textile
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