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Classical textile remains in the British Museum Collection

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Cutler, J 

Abstract

Cloth remains from 1st millennium BC Greece are relatively rare. The majority of the surviving fragments have been preserved in a mineralised state on metal objects. Re-examination of metal and other artefacts in museum collections is increasingly adding to the existing textile corpus. Recently, the remains of two new textile fragments were identified on finds presented to the British Museum by the British Salonica Force in 1919. The poster presents the textiles and discusses their significance within the larger corpus of extant classical Greek textiles.

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Classical textile remains in the British Museum Collection

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textile, mineralised, imprint, Greece, classical, Karabournaki

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Purpureae Vestes V: Textiles, Basketry and Dyes: In the Ancient Mediterranean World

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Publicacions de la Universitat de València

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European Research Council (312603)