Dalton, O. M. (Ormonde Maddock), 1866-1945 · Oxford, At the Clarendon Press · leaf 605
nnaire darcheologie chretienne, col. 1049); A. Gayet, pp 2 580 TEXTILES (under the eighteenth dynasty),1 and that the art of making it was knownto almost all the ancient civilizations of the nearer East.2 The Greekfigured stuffs from South Russia, dating from about B.C. 400, are regardedv. as… … Fig. 364. Tapestry panel of about the third century from a Coptic cemetery in Egypt.(Victoria and Albert Museum.) from Egypt that our principal knowledge of early tapestry is derived.Great numbers of specimens have been exhumed from the larger cemeteries,especially that of Akhmim (Panopolis), which…
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