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The Egyptian tunic ornament: sources and further reading

By Sean Gilsdorf
The Art of the Ancient Weaver: Textiles from Egypt (4th–12th Century AD) (Ann Arbor, 1980).

Textiles, Tools and Techniques: Proceedings of the 8th Conference of the Research Group “Textiles from the Nile Valley,” Antwerp, 4–6 October 2013, ed. Antoine De Moor, Cäcilia Fluck, and Petra Linscheid (Tielt, 2015).

Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity, ed. Thelma K. Thomas (Princeton, 2016).

Catalogue of the Textiles in the Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Collection, ed. Gudrun Bühl and Elizabeth Dospel Williams (Washington DC, 2019).

Matthew P. Canepa, "Textiles and Elite Tastes between the Mediterranean, Iran and Asia at the End of Antiquity," in Global Textile Encounters, ed. Marie-Louise Nosch, Zhao Feng, and Lotika Varadarajan (Oxford, 2015), 1-14.

Heleanor Feltham, "Lions, Silks and Silver: The Influence of Sasanian Persia," Sino-Platonic Papers 206 (2010): 1-50.

Béatrice Huber, "The Textiles of an Early Christian Burial from el-Kom el-Ahmar/Šaruna (Middle Egypt)," in Methods of Dating Ancient Textiles of the First Millennium AD from Egypt and Neighbouring Countries, ed. Antoine De Moor, Cäcilia Fluck, and Susanne Martinssen-Von Falck (Tielt, 2007), 36-69.

Anne Kwaspen, "Reconstruction of a Deconstructed Tunic," in Egyptian Textiles and Their Production: ‘Word’ and ‘Object’ (Hellenistic, Roman and Byzantine Periods), ed. Maria Mossakowska-Gaubert, ed., (Lincoln NE, 2020), 60-68.

Maria Mossakowska-Gaubert, "Tunics Worn in Egypt in Roman and Byzantine Times: The Greek Vocabulary," in Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD, ed. Salvatore Gaspa, Cécile Michel, and Marie-Louise Nosch (Lincoln NE: 2017): 321-345.

Annemarie Stauffer, “Weaving,” in Late Antiquity: A Guide to the Postclassical World, ed. G.W. Bowersock, Peter Brown, and Oleg Grabar (Cambridge MA, 1999), 746-747.

Thelma K. Thomas, "Coptic and Byzantine Textiles Found in Egypt: Corpora, Collections, and Scholarly Perspectives," in Egypt in the Byzantine World, 300–700, ed. Roger S. Bagnall (Cambridge, 2007), 137-162.

John Peter Wild, "The Roman Horizontal Loom," American Journal of Archaeology 91/3 (1987): 459-471.

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