Fragments of Egyptian textile border

An image of Costume/fashion. Textile. Fragments of border (2), with alternating triangle and stylized tree decoration, with swastika and flower motifs. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Qau el-Kebir, Egypt. Length (a) 0.11 m, length (b) 0.17 m; width (a) 0.035 m, width (b) 0.035 m. 501-600. Coptic Period.

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Costume/fashion. Textile. Fragments of border (2), with alternating triangle and stylized tree decoration, with swastika and flower motifs. Production Place: Egypt. Find Spot: Qau el-Kebir, Egypt. Length (a) 0.11 m, length (b) 0.17 m; width (a) 0.035 m, width (b) 0.035 m. 501-600. Coptic Period.

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Accession Number: E.53.1923
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 63
Camera: GFX 50S
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 152 pixels
Image width: 1024 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.0 (Windows)
Filesize: 43.67kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2018:11:12 03:44:12

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6th Century AD Ancient Greece antiquity border Coptic coptic period costume Egyptian fashion Fitz_ANT floral flowers fragment fragmentary swastika textile trees

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