A work made of linen and wool, slit and dovetailed tapestry weave with eccentric wefts and supplementary wrapping weft details; edged by plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming uncut loop pile.

Fragment

Roman period (30 B.C.–641 A.D.), 4th/5th century

Egypt, Akhmin

Egypt

Linen and wool, slit and dovetailed tapestry weave with eccentric wefts and supplementary wrapping weft details; edged by plain weave with supplementary wrapping wefts forming uncut loop pile

Textiles