Textile fragment with inscription, lines, stylized palmettes, and possibly trees
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Title
Textile fragment with inscription, lines, stylized palmettes, and possibly trees
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Associated place
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Date
possibly early 12th century (1101-1130)
Fatimid Period (AD 909 - 1171) -
Material and technique
cotton, block-printed with resist, and dyed blue
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
24.5 x 9 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 9 / 13 threads/cm (thread count) -
No. of items
1
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Credit line
Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
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Museum location
Museum department
Eastern Art
Accession no.
EA1990.150
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Catalogue text
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.In: Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997)
Further reading
Barnes, Ruth, Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1997), no. 142 on p. 38 (vol. ii), vol. ii p. 39, vol. ii p. 38 fig. 142
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