textiles

Linen with occasional threads of coloured wool woven in, and tufts of both wool and linen; red, blues, yellow. In frame giving provenance Illahun. Label on back of frame states "given by Mr. Leonard Lote, author of The Fisher (Fishes) of the Nile." Framed in Oxford, according to pencilled note in old register.

Lahun

Illahun (from Coptic Cem.? to east of Kahun)

- Petrie, William Matthew Flinders, Kahun, Gurob and Hawara, p. 22
- Hall, Rosalind M., Garments in the Petrie Museum
- Hall, Rosalind M., Garments in the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology

Byzantine Period

circa 500 AD

LDUCE-UC7001

Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology