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Kembali

This article discusses an attempt to identify provenance details of textiles that came to the Victoria and Albert Museum, London through an association with the archaeologist Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie. This study revealed that Petrie is responsible, directly or indirectly, for over 500 Egyptian textile pieces held at the V&A. He donated and sold items to the Museum while others came via individuals who had personal or institutional associations with Petrie. The collection is mainly representative of the Late Antique period. Many of the textiles have little or no reliable provenance details while others came from known sites that were attributed to the object upon arrival at the V&A or through this study − sites including Meidum, Tarkhan, the Fayum, Hawara, Kahun, Tanis, Oxyrhynchus, Qarara, the Qau el-Kebir and Badari district, and Akhmim.