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Female Personification

Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

The female figure holds a palm frond in one hand and a basket in the other. She has wings of dark blue outlined in light blue. Pomegranates create a border around the scene.

This textile may have been used as a cushion cover, an embroidered funerary cover in imitation of a Roman period-mummy mask, or may have been part of an embroidered wall hanging.

In the image included here, taken by our Conservation Department, the light-colored areas indicate where indigo dye is present.
CULTURE Coptic
MEDIUM Flax, wool
DATES 5th century C.E.
PERIOD Late Antique Period
DIMENSIONS 11 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. (29.2 x 29.2 cm) as mounted: 16 x 16 x 1 11/16 in. (40.6 x 40.6 x 4.3 cm)  (show scale)
ACCESSION NUMBER 56.125
CREDIT LINE Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
MUSEUM LOCATION This item is not on view
CAPTION Coptic. Female Personification, 5th century C.E. Flax, wool, 11 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. (29.2 x 29.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 56.125. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 56.125_PS9.jpg)
IMAGE overall, 56.125_PS9.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph, 2015
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Coptic. <em>Female Personification</em>, 5th century C.E. Flax, wool, 11 1/2 x 11 1/2 in. (29.2 x 29.2 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 56.125. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 56.125_PS9.jpg)