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Egyptian; Qau-el-Kabir, ca. AD300-600. The decoration is in blue,  pink and green on a cream background. Pyramid outlines are formed with lines of blue scrolling waves. In between  these are trees and beneath these are pyramids in pink with green squares and four green swastikas around them. Below this strip is a line of geometric  shapes.","physicalDescription":"A strip of weft-faced compoud twill silk, likely from the trimming of a tunic. The decoration is in blue, pink and green on a cream background, and consists of chevrons edged with blue wave scrolls and alternating floral and geometric (red, blue and green swastika) motifs. 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Brunton, <i>Qau and Badari III</i>. British School of Archaeology in Egypt 1926 (London, 1930): 26, Pl. 51.5."},{"reference":{"text":"","id":""},"details":"","free":"For discussion of the group of excavated fragments to which the V&A example belongs, see:\r\nF. Pritchard, \"Foreign Influences on the Textiles from Antaeopolis (Qau el-Kebir and Badari) Dating to the 6th and 7th Centuries\", pp. 51-64 in A. de Moor, C. Fluck and P. 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