Coptic Portrait of a Donor, Red Monastery, Sohag, Egypt, sixth century.


Figure 7. Portrait of a donor in the Red Monastery, sixth century, Sohag. Reproduced by permission of the American Research Center in Egypt, Inc. (ARCE).
This project was funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Photo © Gustavo Camps.
Source: p.42, "The Luscious Locks of Lust: Hair and the Construction of Gender in Egypt from Clement to the Fāṭimids" by Christina Thérèse (Tineke) Rooijakkers in Al-Masāq, Journal of the Medieval Mediterranean.



Other Illustrations of Costume and Soldiers from Coptic and Nubian sources
6th Century Illustrations of Costume and Soldiers





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