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Textile fragment with rosettes and inscription

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    • currently in research collection

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  • Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    Bands of different width, all with a beaded border; eight-petalled rosettes, red against light and set in a circle of dots, two types of smaller rosettes and spirals in a wider band and loosely arranged, a band of script, and a cable pattern at right angles to the other bands.

    The reverse is almost completely saturated with dye. The inscription reads 'perpetuity and good luck. Glory and...'; it derives from Ayyubid or early Mamluk script (c. 1200-1260). The textile may therefore have a mid-13th-century date.

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