Maitland to request permission to include a photo of this sock. (I am currently tracking around 110 separate items in the Romano-Coptic corpus, but the numbers go up and the numbers go down.)Īs I was preparing my presentation, Charting the Nalbinding of the Nile, I reached out to Dr. The numbers go up and the numbers go down as images show data pieces are not a match, that a mention is not actually nalbinding, or as in this case matches are made between separate mentions. So where I had thought I might have two socks to add to the corpus, I only had one. However, the catalog entry did note that the sock was from the Hilton Price collection. At the time, there was only one image of the sock available. īy November 2018, my search had turned up a then recent entry for A.1911.315 into the National Museums Scotland’s Online Catalog. And yet, still no identifying information although it was obvious the sock had clearly undergone conservation since the original image.Ī familiar cry echoing through the millennia of an ancient Egyptian who has lost a sock /J0bIDtr00W- Grayson Perry SeptemThe second image I found of this lovely sock in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh. It clearly was the other side of the same sock. Then, in October of 2018, I ran across another photo in my Twitter feed. Margret Maitland, Principal Curator of the Ancient Mediterranean, and Head of the Mediterranean, Africa, Americas, and Oceania Section in the National Museums Scotland in Edinburgh, but no further information on the image. Not too long before that, I had run across an image of the bottom of a two-toed nalbound sock that had been saved without any identifying information. Ahmȋm.” A Catalogue of the Egyptian Antiquities in the Possession of F.G. Sock, knitted in various coloured wools, with a receptacle formed for the great toe. As it was published in 1897, I was fairly certain that this reference was actually to a nalbound sock as the differences between nalbinding and knitting were not well known in the late 19th century. Searching through old catalogs of the early Egyptian collectors, I ran across a mention of a “knitted” Coptic sock in A Catalog of the Egyptian Antiquities in the possession of F. This is one of those cases where the numbers went down. A quick mention here, a random unidentified image there, the numbers go up as information is found and the numbers go down as disparate pieces are matched together. Searching for more examples of Romano-Coptic socks can lead to many surprises.
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