The remains of the insert are woven in colorful wool. The pattern originally was composed of a middle circle with circles in the edges that contain kneeling putti. On the margin, there are fragments from a semicircle-shaped frieze element. Besides there are remnants of green plant motifs with red blossoms as well as vases and yellow and orange fruit. The insert was originally underlaid with fine, woven, unbleached linen.
The Coptic textiles that are obtained in the Museum Ulm were acquired by the former Gewerbemuseum Ulm (Museum of Applied Arts) from the collection of Franz Bock (1823 - 1899) in the end of the 1880s. Dr. Franz Johann Joseph Bock was a cleric and art historian and travelled in 1885 and 1886 to Upper Egypt where he carried out excavations. In this manner, he set up a collection of Coptic textile fragments that come from graves. Particularly these are parts of blankets or tunics. The collected objects Franz Bock has sold gradually to different museums. Since Bock has cut his finds, normally only fragments from larger fabrics came into the different collections. Thereby it is likely that snippets from one and the same textile can be found dispersed on several collections.
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