Ancient Egyptian Textiles - Abu Seiffein
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A one-page article by Cherilyn Nelson on textiles recovered in the winter of 1981 from the churchyard of Abu Seiffein, a Coptic cemetery in Akhmim, Egypt. It describes the site, burial customs, coffin types, and how bodies were clothed, along with the plain, striped and checked fabrics and a sheer garment called a shala. It also outlines how the textiles were handled, catalogued and divided between Egyptian museums and the University of Minnesota, whose Akhmim project made the excavation.
- Type
- Article
- Date
- December 1981-January 1982
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 1
- Archive notes
- By permission. PDF provided by Judith Combs.
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From Ralph Griswold's Digital Archive, delivered by the University of Arizona.
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