Towel of cotton cloth, embroidered | Yale University Art Gallery

19th century

Not on view

Medium: Cotton, silver strips, silk thread embroidery
Dimensions: 50 1/8 × 21 5/8 in. (127.3 × 55 cm)
Credit Line: Hobart and Edward Small Moore Memorial Collection, Gift of Mrs. William H. Moore
Accession Number: 1938.362
Geography: Turkey
Culture: Turkish, Islamic
Period: Ottoman period (1299–1922)
Classification: Textiles
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Provenance

Mrs. William H. Moore (1858–1955) New York, purchased between Mount Ida and Troy, Turkey, to 1938; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

Bibliography

Simon T. James, The Excavations at Dura-Europos,1928 to 1937: Final Report VII, 7 (London: British Museum Press, 2004),

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