Now framed, tapestry weave band with warp of dark blue wool and weft of bleached dark blue and red wool woven into very fine dark blue wool plain weave. 1 x 21 1/2 in., 16 1/2 x 27 1/4 in. (frame). Literature: E.D. Macquire, Weavings from Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Egypt, The Rich Life and the Dance, University of Illinois, 1999, pg. 61, no. A18. Exhibited: Jerusalem, L.A. Mayer Memorial Institute for Islamic Art, Textiles from Egypt 4th-13th Centuries C.E., 1980; Urbana-Champaign, Krannert Art Museum, Weavings from Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Egypt, The Rich Life and the Dance, 1999.,