Clothing Fragment


Hilton Price Number
HP46
Object Type
Clothing, Garment/dress
Periods
Late Roman Period to Byzantine Period
Dynasties
Third century AD/CE to Seventh century CE/AD
Provenance
Egypt, Akhmim
Measurements
2 foot, 6 inches | 2 foot, 5 inches
Number of Elements
1

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Description

Fragment of a Garment, with a long strip of embroidery in colours, having upon it the figure of a saint. 2 ft. 6 in | 2 ft. 5 in. Coptic period. Aḥmîm.

Bibliography

Price, Frederick George Hilton (1897) A catalogue of the Egyptian antiquities in the possession of F. G. Hilton Price. London: Quaritch. Anonymous (1911). Catalogue of the important and extensive collection of Egyptian antiquities, the property of the late F. G. Hilton-Price, Esq. [...] : which will be sold by auction by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge [...] on Wednesday, 12th July, 1911, and two following days, and on Monday, the 17th of July, and four following days. London: Davy.

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