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Textile fragment with inscription, lines, stylized palmettes, and possibly trees

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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

    Band of inscription which repeats itself after 19 cm., four white lines on either side of the band, and a row of stylized ?trees and palmettes. The resist defines the design, the background is blue.

    The inscription reads, in order of printing: 'and perpetuity to its owner...Blessing and...'. Pfister discusses a similar fragment which has the same inscription. The type of script derives from a 11th- or early 12th-century Fatimid source. This may suggest an early 12th-century date for the textile.

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