Coptic Tapestry: Slide Information

  1. Personification of Luna (Moon) or Head of Diana, Goddess of the Hunt; linen and wool; 22" x 24-3/4"; late 3rd-early 4th century A.D. (MMoA 23)
  2. Tapestry Panel of the Triumph of Dionysus; linen and wool; 8-5/8" x 13-3/8"; Akmim/Panopolis, 4th century A.D. (MMoA 25)
  3. Detail, tapestry panel (MMoA 3)
  4. Tunic with Dionysiac ornament; linen and wool; 53-1/8" long; Akmim/Panopolis, 5th century A.D. (MMoA 27)
  5. Sleeve ornament from tunic (MMoA 25)
  6. Wall hanging with mounted riders hunting; linen and wool; 41" x 24-3/4"; Akmim?, 5th century A.D. (MMoA 25)
  7. Wool textile decorated with a walking ram; 8-1/4" high; Egypt or Iran, 7th-8th century A.D. (MMoA 25)
  8. Roundel with cross; linen and polychrome wool; 4-1/2" x 5-1/4"; 7th-8th century A.D. (AAW:TfE 18)
  9. Detail of a clavus with saint; linen and wool; 22-1/4" x 8-1/2" (full piece); 7th-11th century A.D. (AAW:TfE 22)
  10. Polychrome tapestry square with galloping horseman brandishing a double axe; linen and wool; 8-3/4" square; central panel 6th century A.D., border 8th-9th century A.D. (Campbell front cover)
  11. Tapestry band with figural panels enclosed by interlace; wool; 8-1/4" x 12-3/4"; 11-12th century A.D. (Campbell no.236)
  12. Interlace sampler; c.11th-12th century A.D. (Gerspach 15)
  13. Fragment of tiraz; linen and silk; 3-1/2" x 3-3/8"; Egypt, Fatimid Dynasty, 10th-12th century A.D. (Thomas 35)
  14. Map of the Nile Valley (AAW:TfE 0)
  15. Vertical Loom, adapted from a wall painting in the tomb of Thot-nefer, circa 1425 B.C. (AAW:TfE 10)
  16. Horizontal Loom (Thomas 59b)
  17. Egyptian pit loom from Gilroy, The History of Silk, Cotton, Linen, Wool and Other Fibrous Substances, 1845 (AAW:TfE 11)
  18. Men's clothing, knee-length tunic, and toga; Roman Period, 2nd-4th century A.D. (Thomas 6)
  19. Woman's dalmatic; Byzantine Period, 5th-7th century A.D. (Thomas 26)
  20. Man's tunic/dalmatic; linen and wool; 4th century A.D. (Burnham 9)
  21. Man's tunic/dalmatic; linen and wool; 99" across; 5th-6th century A.D. (Burnham 10)