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Sat, Feb 25, 2017 11:00AM EST - Sun, Feb 26, 2017 11:00AM EST
Lot 109

COPTIC TEXTILE WITH A THYRSOS-SHAPED PANEL WITH BACCHIC DANCERS

Estimate: $150 - $250
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$500 $100
$3,000 $250
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Now on a linen ground, framed; the tapestry weave with warp of natural linen and weft of bleached natural orange, red, green, brown and black wool. Literature: E.D. Macquire, Weavings from Roman, Byzantine and Islamic Egypt, The Rich Life and the Dance, University of Illinois, 1999, pg. 104, no. B9.