Textile Messages: Inscribed Fabrics from Roman to Abbasid Egypt

ISBN-13: 9789004149564 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 261 str.

Cacilia Fluck; Gisela Helmecke

Opis

This publication deals with textiles from Egypt of the first millennium AD, supplied with Greek, Coptic and Arabic inscriptions. Originating from a period of changing cultures, religions and languages these objects became a valuable historical source. For the first time they are discussed from multi-disciplinary view points.