Mitteilungen zur Christlichen Archäologie 27
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Mitteilungen zur Christlichen Archäologie 27, pp. 111-118, 2021/11/04
This article considers an entirely unique textile, namely a church curtain, of which two or three fragments have been preserved in European museums: one piece in the Arts and Crafts Museum in Prague as well as one in the Musées Royaux dʼArt et dʼHistoire in Brussels, and perhaps a third in the German Textile Museum in Krefeld. Most likely all three fragments are part of a curtain from the Theodor Graf collection. Similarly, a fragment located in Paris at the Musée du Louvre, Département des Antiquités égyptiennes, and another in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London are brought together.
Keywords: late antique textiles from Egypt, Theodor Graf Collection, early Christian curtain, Ankh, Cross, Christogram, Panopolis /Achmim