| Artefact ID | 1059 |
| TM ID | - |
| Findspot (DEChriM ID) | 25 (Aḫmīm) | Class | Garment/adornment/accessories, Liturgical object |
| Material | Wool, 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 criteria | Christian symbols/gestures/isopsephy |
| Date from | 324 |
| Date to | 418 |
| Dating criteria | Radiocarbon dating (unpublished). |
| Absolute/relative date | Absolute date |
| Archaeological context | Uncertain. Probably excavated in Aḫmīm. |
| Accession number | Berlin, Staatliche Museen, MBK-Inv.-Nr. 9212 |
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