279: Coptic Textile

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Description

A Coptic textile of a geometric design surrounded by continuous circles with animal motif at the center, it presages the motifs later adopted by Moslem artists and artisans for their proclivity towards abstract, purely geometric designs 5th/6th c. AD, presented for exhibition in a plexiglass enclosure.

Size: 6 in high by 6 ½ in wide