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Part of a blanket

Fragment of a blanket made of long nubby linen rubbing with a large square insert in black-brown, red, orange and green wool woven on natural linen. The centre circle, which is bordered by a row of waves, the so-called "running dog", depicts a rider on a high-jumping horse. Kneeling naked cupids with waving red or green chlamis appear in the surrounding areas. Flower pots appear in the spandrels. 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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Object type
Coptic textiles
Dimensions
H 60 cm, W 51 cm
Material/Technique
Linen, wool; knitted
Current location
Museum Ulm
Inventory number
1929.6580

Provenance and sources

when
4.-5. century CE (?)
where
Egypt
when
1885-1887 (?)
Description
Sale to the Gewerbemuseum Ulm around December 1887

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