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Square insert piece of a linen tunic

A square insert from a linen tunic woven in black-brown and ochre. Within the centre square, which is surrounded by ten small circles, there is another circle in which a man appears carrying a shield with an ochre chlamys draped over his shoulders. The Coptic textiles preserved in the Ulm Museum were purchased from the collection of Franz Bock (1823 - 1899) by the former Ulm Trade Museum at the end of the 1880s. Dr Franz Johann Joseph Bock was a clergyman and art historian and travelled to Upper Egypt in 1885 and 1886, where he carried out excavations. He amassed a collection of Coptic textile fragments from tombs. In particular, these were pieces of blankets or tunics. Franz Bock gradually sold the collected objects to various museums. As Bock trimmed his finds, only sections of larger fabrics were usually included in the various collections. It is therefore likely that fragments of one and the same textile are scattered across several collections.

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Cataloguing data

Object type
Coptic textiles
Dimensions
H 22 cm, W 22 cm
Material/Technique
Linen, wool; knitted
Current location
Museum Ulm
Inventory number
1929.6588

Provenance and sources

  • Production
    when
    5.-6. century CE
    where
    Egypt
  • Change of physical control
    when
    1885-1887 (?)
    who
    Description
    Sale to the Gewerbemuseum Ulm around December 1887

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CC0 1.0 DEED
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