Dura Europos

Textiles from Dura Europos. Documented with digital photography. Access provided by the Yale University Museum of Art.



Flowered Textile plus color chart. Dura textil 140. Plate XXI in the report. Identified in the text as tan wool warp (12 threads per cm) decorated tapestry over one warp. Weft of wool that is green (indigo with yellow or brown), mixed with pink, pale pink, pink, red, undyed, tan, and indigo blue. The textile fragment is behind plexiglass which presents reflections and somewhat masks the true colors.



Colored flower closeup with indigo center



Colored flower closeup with red center



Knitting plus color chart. Dudra textile 265 illustrated on plate XXVI in the original report. Identified as undyed and dtan wool. Identified in the original report as Crossed (Eastern) knitting.



Knitting example eyelets.



Knitting example closeup.



Knitted sweater based upon the Dura Europos fragment.



Shin Guard plus color chart. Dura textdaile 292 illustrated on plate XXX in the original report. Identified as undyed linen



Guard



Guard, closeup



Wool textile with madder red dyed bands. Dura textile 188 (found in 1938 season, reg. 5586) and illustrated on Plate I in the original report.



Madder red dyed wood textile, closeup



Textile



Textile



Wool arming cap suitable for use under a helmet. Found in excavation unit L8-W104 during the 1938 field season (reg. no. 5673). Brown wool with a felt lining of undyed wool.



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