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Artefact ID1059
TM ID-
Findspot (DEChriM ID)25   (Aḫmīm)
ClassGarment/adornment/accessories, Liturgical object
MaterialWool, Linen
Description

Woven fragment of a larger linen textile piece, decorated with a red crux ansata and, inside the loop of the crux and a second circle made of dark purple wool, a staurogram in a dark green hue.

This decoration suggests that the garment to which the fragment belonged was liturgical, likely an altar cloth (for parallels see El-Sayed, Lakomy, Ehler, Fluck, Herzberg-Beiersdorf and Zorn 2021).

Selection criteriaChristian symbols/gestures/isopsephy
Date from324
Date to418
Dating criteria

Radiocarbon dating (unpublished).

Absolute/relative dateAbsolute date
Archaeological context

Uncertain. Probably excavated in Aḫmīm.

Accession number

Berlin, Staatliche Museen, MBK-Inv.-Nr. 9212

BIBLIOGRAPHY

• Fluck, Cäcilia. 2017. "Spätantike Textilien mit crux ansata im Museum für Byzantinische Kunst." Jahrbuch der Berliner Museen 59: 10.

• Fluck, Cäcilia et al. 2015. Ein Gott: Abrahams Erben am Nil. Juden, Christen und Muslime in Ägypten von der Antike bis zum Mittelalter. Berlin: Michael Imhof Verlag, p. 252, fig. 308.

• El-Sayed, Rafed, Konstantin C. Lakomy, Elisabeth Ehler, Cäcilia Fluck, Anne Herzberg-Beiersdorf and Olivia Zorn. 2021. Achmîm - Ägyptens vergessene Stadt. Berlin: ‎Michael Imhof Verlag, 260.

Authors
Victor Ghica, 2021
Suggested citation
Victor Ghica, 2021, "Artefact ID 1059", 4CARE database - Fourth-Century Christian Archaeological Record of Egypt, https://4care-skos.mf.no/artefacts/1059
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