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Textile fragment with tabs, roundels, and inscription
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Details
- Associated place
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Near East (place of creation)
- Date
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10th - 15th century AD
Mamluk Period (1250 - 1517)
- Material and technique
- possibly linen, with some tracing visible, embroidered with light-blue thread, probably flax or cotton
- Dimensions
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13.3 x 9.2 cm (length x width)
along length/width 22 / 22 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.04 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.06 cm (thread diameter)
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assembled › woven › plain woven,woven › plain woven,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1984.33
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Further reading
Barnes, Ruth and Marianne Ellis, ‘The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries’, 4 vols, 2001, Oxford, Ashmolean Museum, cat. vol. ii, illus. vol. i
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
Two tabs defined by a double outline, each containing a roundel. The right one has an inscription and interlacing tendrils, the left one may have contained a crescent blazon. There are remains of tracing lines.
The inscription reads 'al-sultan' in abbreviation. The three-tier form of the roundel has been called a 'fesse' by Balog (1964), the three-fielded shield used as the blazon of the Mamluk courier. Allan (1970: 100) and Meinecke (1972: 236) discuss the three-tier field in a wider historical context. The stem stitch is worked irregularly.
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