Full Description
Its dry climate means that Egypt boasts an exceptionally rich heritage of preserved ancient textiles. Since 1996, the international research group Textiles from the Nile Valley has been studying these Roman, Byzantine and early-Islamic textile artefacts, many of which have found their way into European and North American museum collections.
The research group, consisting of curators, archaeologists, textile conservators and scientists, organises a biennial conference at Katoen Natie HeadquARTers in Antwerp, and publishes a series of unique books on the importance of Egyptian textiles.
This latest volume brings together the findings from the 11th conference, which was held from 25 to 27 October 2019. The focus is on the history of textile excavating and collecting, which goes back to the late 19th century.
The book contains 18 text contributions describing recent fieldwork, conservation treatments and scientific research worldwide, in collaboration with major universities and museums such as the Victoria & Albert Museum in London and the Hermitage in St. Petersburg.
The book is being published to mark the 12th international scientific Textiles from the Nile Valley Conference, which is taking place from 12 to 14 November 2021 in Antwerp.
Text in English and German.
Contents
6 Preface
7 A brief note on the need for 14C-redating
7 Acknowledgements
8 Abbreviations
CHAPTER 1
EXPLORERS, FIRST COLLECTORS AND TRADERS
12 A very Victorian tourist: The Reverend Greville John Chester and 19th-century textile collecting at the Victoria and Albert Museum
Benjamin Hinson
22 The question of "What went before?" and George Hewitt Myers: The formation of The Textile Museum archaeological collection
Sumru Belger Krody
34 Alfred Wiedemann, Émile Brugsch, and the trade in mummy textiles at the end of the 19th century
Veerle van Kersen
42 Late Antique textiles from the Robert Forrer collection in Polish museums in the context of his activities as a textile dealer. Preliminary research
Anna Głowa
50 A survey of the "Coptic" textiles from the Hermitage collection
Olga Osharina
60 Textiles from Egypt's first millennium AD in Danish museum collections
Anne Hedeager Krag
74 Sir Charles Nicholson and the Nicholson Collections at the University of Sydney
Glennda Susan Marsh-Letts and Candace Richards
86 Collecting on the side: Textiles from the 1913-14 excavations at Antinoopolis held in three Australasian museums
Rosanne Livingstone
96 The first discovery of figured silks in Antinoopolis: Carl Schmidt's excavations in Egypt
Kosuke Goto
112 One of the last choices of Albert Gayet in the field: A child's tunic from Antinoopolis in Lyon
Fleur Letellier-Willemin
120 Fundort bekannt! Stoffe aus Qarara
Claudia Nauerth unter Mitarbeit von Béatrice Huber
CHAPTER 2
RECEPTION OF TEXTILES IN THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY
134 "Coptic" fabrics, collectors, and the Fauves
Nancy Arthur-Hoskins
CHAPTER 3
FROM COLLECTIONS: SCIENTIFIC METHODS AND CONSERVATION
144 Mini-weavings from Gebel Zeit
Roberta Cortopassi and Mohamed Dallel
152 Site-by-site research on First Millennium AD textiles from Egypt at the British Museum: Conservation and documentation of archaeological collections
Anna Harrison, Elisabeth R. O'Connell and Frances Pritchard
166 From the Middle Ages to the Modern Era: A Coptic liturgical garment in the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum Mainz
Petra Linscheid with a contribution by Ina Vanden Berghe
CHAPTER 4
TEXTILES FROM RECENT EXCAVATIONS
180 Textile finds from burial 2003-NW-39 of the Fag el-Gamus necropolis
Anne Kwaspen and Kristin South
192 Ein Mantel für die kalten Tage
Béatrice Huber
202 New finds from old excavations in WesternThebes. Nineteenth-century scholars and the textiles from Deir el-Bachît
Sabrina Tatz
210 The spring 2019 season at Hisn al-Bab: Care, study and general presentation of textile finds from Area 9 (6th-7th centuries)
Amandine Mérat
220 Bibliography
234 Index names
235 Index places
236 Index textile and costume terms
238 Index museums and institutions
239 Authors
