Textile fragment with pseudo kufic inscription
Details
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Title
Textile fragment with pseudo kufic inscription
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Associated place
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Date
10th - 15th century AD -
Material and technique
linen, embroidered with red, blue, and traces of dark-brown silk
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Material index
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Technique index
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Object type
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Dimensions
12.5 x 8 cm (length x width)
along length/width 20 / 15 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm max. (thread diameter)
ground fabric 0.02 cm min. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.07 cm (thread diameter) -
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.
EA1993.94
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Catalogue text
A band of pseudo-kufic script in blue is arranged between narrow red and brown borders. The red border is embroidered in back stitch, the inscription in pattern darning running stitch.
The Kufic script may be a corrupted version of al-mulk 'the kingdom'. The brown embroidery is almost entirely disintegrated.In: Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum
Glossary of terms
kufic
Further reading
Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, p. 55 (vol. iv), vol. iv p. 55
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