Fillet
4th Century - 8th Century (made)
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This object may have been a fillet, but may alternatively have been a burial cushion.
Object details
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| Materials and techniques | Leather wrapped linen and hair, with gilded and openwork decoration |
| Brief description | Fillet or headrest, leather stuffed with hair, Akhmim, Egypt, Late Antique, possibly 4th - 8th Century |
| Physical description | Fillet or headrest. The body is a rounded, crescent-shaped black-brown leather pad with tapering ends, stuffed with fine golden-brown hair wrapped in a finely-woven linen. The leather is particularly watermarked and blackened at one end, and broken between the central and left crosses, to reveal the linen beneath. The surface of the leather is pierced with three medalions of openwork decoration, each representing a cross pattée within a circle, surrounded by a border of eyelets, showing gilt leather underneath. The tips of the fillet are decorated with a large openworked triangle, with smaller long triangles and a circle above it. |
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| Object history | Objects 2-1888 to 9-1888 bought together for £12, from Henry Wallis. |
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| Summary | This object may have been a fillet, but may alternatively have been a burial cushion. |
| Bibliographic reference | See R. Smalley, "Dating Coptic Footwear: A Typological and Comparative Approach", Journal of Coptic Studies 14 (2012): 97-135 |
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| Accession number | 8-1888 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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