Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Subject Index: Textile, Wool, Africa (including Egypt)

Works of Art (12)

Kilim, ca. 1800, Central Anatolia, Wool, cotton, and silver thread (2006.190)
Panel with the Triumph of Dionysus, 4th century; Early Byzantine, Egyptian; Said to be from Panopolis (Akhmim), Egypt, Undyed linen and purple wool, tapestry weave (90.5.873)
Prayer rug, late 16th–early 17th century; Ottoman, Egypt, probably Cairo, Wool (17.120.137)
Roundel, fragment, 7th century, Byzantine; Egypt (?), Polychrome wool and undyed linen, tapestry weave (63.178.2)
Rug, late 16th–early 17th century; Ottoman, Egypt, probably Cairo, Wool (22.100.53)
"Simonetti" Carpet, ca. 1500; Mamluk, Attributed to Egypt, Pile weave, wool pile on wool foundation (1970.105)
Tapestry Square with the Head of Spring, 4th–5th century; Early Byzantine, Egyptian, Polychrome wool, linen (90.5.848)
Textile Blanket (Khasa), 20th century; Fulani, Fulani people; Mali, western Sudan, Wool (1997.446.3)
Textile fragment with emblem, late 15th or early 16th century; Mamluk, Egypt, Wool, appliqué (1972.120.3)
Textile Fragment, 5th century, Byzantine; Made in Egypt, Polychrome wool and undyed linen, tapestry, weave (90.5.807)
Textile Tunic (Jibbeh), 1881–98, Sudan; Mahdist, Cotton, wool (1993.370)
Tunic, 5th century, Probably from Panopolis (Ahkmim), Egypt, Undyed linen and purple wool, design in tapestry weave (26.9.8)

Thematic Essays (3)