Armenian Cochineal on the Silk Road: Red-Dyed Wool Mantles from Late Antique Egypt
Among the textiles recovered from the necropolis of Antinoé (Antinoopolis) in Middle Egypt during Albert Gayet's 1898 campaign, and now held at the Musée des Tissus et des Arts Décoratifs in Lyon, the group of men's mantles stands out as
One Vessel, Many Worlds: Cross-Cultural Exchange in a Fourteenth-Century Persian Manuscript and the Enduring Memory of a Sacred Mountain
The miniature depicting Noah's Ark (MSS 727, folio 45a) belongs to the Jamiʿ al-Tawarikh ("Compendium of Chronicles"), the monumental universal history commissioned by the Ilkhanid vizier Rashid al-Din Fadlallah (c. 1247–1318). The manuscript was produced in Tabriz between 1305 and
