The Christian cemetery appears to have been in constant use until the eleventh century. Teams from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1907-1932), recovered various textiles from the cemetery. According to the former head of textile conservation at the museum, Nobuko Kajitani (2006:108), an embroidered piece was found, but no further details appear to have been published.
Sources:
- KAJITANI, Nobuko (2006). 'Textiles and their context in the third-to-fourth-century CE cemetery of al-Bagawat, Khargah Oasis, Egypt from the 1907-1931 excavations by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,' in: Sabine Schrenk (ed.), Textiles in Situ: Their Find Spots in Egypt and Neighbouring Countries in the First Millennium CE, Riggisburg: Abegg Stiftung: 9 Riggisberger Berichte, pp. 95-112.
- VOGELSANG-EASTWOOD, Gillian (2016). 'Late classical and early medieval embroideries from Egypt and Nubia,' in: Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood (ed.). Encyclopedia of Embroidery from the Arab World, London: Bloomsbury Academic, pp. 58-70, esp. p. 65.
Digital source of illustration (retrieved 3 June 2016).
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