Dress Ornament


Hilton Price Number
HP73
Object Type
Clothing, Garment/dress, Dress ornament
Periods
Late Roman Period to Byzantine Period
Dynasties
Third century AD/CE to Seventh century CE/AD
Material
Fibre/textile (from plants and animals) (Flax)
Provenance
Egypt, Akhmim
Number of Elements
1
Culture
Egyptian
Animal
Unknown

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Description

Circular Ornament, from a robe; in yellow flax linen, with a circular ornament woven in purple, representing a Bacchanalian scene; a man reclining amongst vines, with a vase in the foreground and an animal up the tree; half of it has perished. 21 in. | 16 in. Coptic. 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.

Last modified: 28 Jul 2021
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