Textile medallion. Purple brown wool loops on undyed linen. Such textile medallions were used to decorate tunics in the first millennium A.D. See Pritchard, F. 2004 'Clothing Culture. Dress in Egypt in the First millennium AD. Clothing from Egypt in the collection of The Whitworth Art Gallery, The University of Manchester.' Manchester. Similar looped medallions dated to the 4th-7th century are found in Lewis, S. 1969 'Early Coptic Textiles'. See also Trilling, James, 1982 'The Roman heritage : textiles from Egypt and the eastern Mediterranean, 300-600 A.D.' Washington, D.C.- Textile Museum p93-94.
