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Textile fragment with interlocking medallions

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    • First floor | Room 28 | Asian Crossroads

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  • Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    Indian Block-Printed Textiles in Egypt: The Newberry Collection in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

    Interlocking medallion shapes with beaded borders and filled with tendrils that have flower-heads. The design is closely related to the continuous lotus vine of Cat. no. 238 [EA1990.247]. The resist defines the pattern, the background is red.

    The design was probably resist-stamped, as the outlines are slightly less clearly defined on the reverse. Similar to the more coarsely printed, blue design of Cat. no. 238 [EA1990.247]. This similarity links the pattern also with two fragments found at Quseir al-Qadim (see Vogelsang-Eastwood 1990: Cat. nos. 27 & 28). The fragment was given a C-14 date of 1060 CE +/- 40. The dye analysis has shown that the colorant used was alizarin with purpurin, the source of which was Rubia tinctorum L.

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