Tapestry roundel with bucolic scene

Classification

clothing

Culture

Coptic (culture)

Dimensions

9.6 x 10.2 cm

Date

7th century A.D.

Period

following the Arab conquest of Egypt (after 639 A.D.); 7th century A.D.

Material

linen ; wool

Iconography

running-wave border ; female figure ; quadrupede ; tree ; bucolic scene

Production place

Egypt

Present location

Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts, Collection of Classical Antiquities

Provenance

Budapest, Hungarian National Museum

Inventory

51.211

ID

Hyp-134

References

Török 1993 II, 34, T 49.; Szilágyi, J. Gy. 1981, 26, no. 22