SECTION OF COPTIC TEXTILE
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£100 - £200
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Hammer price:
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£90 |
Bidding ended. Lot has been sold.
SECTION OF COPTIC TEXTILE, wool on linen, Circa 7th -8th century, bearing two labels, one facing forward in explanation of its origins from a Coptic monastery near Nag Hamadi with a typed label verso explaining how H.C. Hartley, 'the Egyptian government's textile expert' was presented with this 'memento' after a visit. Mounted in a Perspex sandwich - textile 36 x 20cm Provenance: The Peter Newall Collection of Antiquities
