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Textile fragment with tiraz band
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Details
- Associated place
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The Ancient Egyptian World › Lower Egypt › Tinnis (probable place of creation)
- Date
- AD 920 - 921 (AH 308)
- Material and technique
- linen, embroidered with red silk
- Dimensions
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17 x 17 cm max. (length x width)
along length/width 19 / 14 threads/cm (thread count)
ground fabric 0.05 cm (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.01 cm max. (thread diameter)
additional fibre, embroidery 0.05 cm min. (thread diameter)
- Material index
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organic › animal › animal product › silk
- Technique index
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woven › plain woven,assembled › woven › plain woven,
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- No. of items
- 1
- Credit line
- Presented by Professor Percy Newberry, 1941.
- Accession no.
- EA1988.31
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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. iii, illus. vol. i
Location
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- currently in research collection
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The Newberry Collection of Islamic Embroideries
Fragment of a tiraz cloth, of which the inscription reads: "…'ala yaday Shafi' sana thamani wa…" (under the direction of Shafi' in the year (30)8/920 AD).
The inscription's reference to Shafi' and the date relate this tiraz textile to one in the Textile Museum, Washington D.C., to a second one in the Benaki Museum, Athens, as well as to a third tiraz in the Dumbarton Oaks collection. Shafi' was director or intendant at the tiraz factory at Tinnis.
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