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Textile fragment with circles and tabs

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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

    A design field with red circles that have beaded surrounds and are set into a grid of smaller, red circles. The small circles each have a rosette of five white dots. A red band with white rosettes is at both selvedges. At one end is a band with linked diamonds followed by five tabs, as in Cat. no. 1066 [EA1990.1073].

    Two selvedges, with stitching along both, as well as a mending seam. The latter is sewn with a z-twist flax thread. The reverse shows less dye saturation than the surface. The tabs are identical to one found at the Nubian site Qasr Ibrim. Radiocarbon analysis has given a date of 1555 CE+/- 55.

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