Child's Tunic from Byzantine Egypt (Illustration)

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by Brooklyn Museum
published on 29 August 2018

Child's Tunic from Byzantine Egypt — Child's tunic, made of wool and flax, with figural images, an example of Coptic fashion from the 5th or 6th century CE. Similar garments were worn throughout the Byzantine and early Islamic period in Egypt, and are characteristic of early medieval Egyptian fashion.

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