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Textile fragment
Textile fragment

Textile fragment

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MediumTextile
ClassificationsMaterials
Credit LineGift of Judge E.B. Taft
Object number1932.28.43
DescriptionCloth with mummy, rectangular piece of roughly woven linen painted in black and colours-red and purple. Right border has a vertical band of concentric circles. Anubis, the jackel or dog headed god of the dead, facing left in profile, wearing a wig, striped in black and white. Collar in purple and white, tunic and kilt in purple and white stripes, remains of red and designs of dots and callops. Black skin. Sickle shaped eye. Strip of cloth attached across back surface.
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