Coptic Textile Funerary Robe Fragments (3)

**Originally Listed At $250**

Egypt, Coptic culture, ca. 2nd to 3rd century CE. Three fine textile fragments of funerary robes displayed in individual wooden frames. The two matching mirrored fragments feature a stylized goat with a raised tail within a pair of white ovals, and each oval is sewn to a rectangular, crimson-hued panel. The largest textile features a quartet of dancers within the spaces of a cruciform central body, and a register of inversely corresponding wave motifs create the dark framework within the cream-hued body. Display frames included. Size of largest (dancers): 7.4" W x 8.125" H (18.8 cm x 20.6 cm); (frame): 11.25" W x 11.75" H (28.6 cm x 29.8 cm).

Provenance: ex-private Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA collection, acquired in Cairo in the mid 1900s

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Condition Report: Each piece has expected fraying and losses to interior and/or peripheral threads, with minor fading to original colors, and light staining. Original iconography still visible. Old information labels on front of each frame.