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Ancient Egyptian: Costume

This document discusses ancient Egyptian costume based on depictions from 700 BC. It describes a type of tunic dress with straps over each shoulder that sometimes had decorative patterns printed, painted, or embroidered on it. While resembling a skirt, the dress reached the breastline. The document also shows a plate from 300 BC depicting a woman in a striped tunic and notes she represents Cleopatra dressed as a goddess.

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Ancient Egyptian: Costume

This document discusses ancient Egyptian costume based on depictions from 700 BC. It describes a type of tunic dress with straps over each shoulder that sometimes had decorative patterns printed, painted, or embroidered on it. While resembling a skirt, the dress reached the breastline. The document also shows a plate from 300 BC depicting a woman in a striped tunic and notes she represents Cleopatra dressed as a goddess.

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ANCIENT EGYPTIAN COSTUME

PLATE I.

Plate which dates 700 B.C., is an exact copy of an


I.,

Egyptian drawing. It will be noticed that the Egyptian


method of representing the figure is a peculiar one. A
modern representation of the same type of dress is

shown in Fig. 2, and the plan of cutting in Fig. 2 A. It


should be noted that this plan namely, a tunic with
braces is in some instances shown with the braces
buttoned on each shoulder at the narrowest part. This
illustration is given as a type of Egyptian dress decora-

tion, which would be either printed, painted, or


embroidered on the garment. It might be considered
that this type of dress more nearly approaches the skirt
than the tunic but reaching, as it does, to the breast-
;

line, and comparing various examples which, as it were,

gradually merge into the sleeveless tunic which again


merges into the tunic with short sleeves, the present
classification will be found to be the most convenient.
PLATE I

M.O.H. del. F.SH. pinx.


A GODDESS
ANCIENT EGYPTIAN COSTUME

PLATE II.

Plate .., whicn aaics A , - ,.c. also ury B.C.,


isan exact copy of an Egyptian d r woman
wearing a species of tunic di br >

Fig. 1).
The striped decoration upon th' ;jested
by the lin^ mother type 01 :amely,
the drawn-v .u*t. The 01' of H oio:i can
- eas 1
ood by a
an
rex, rapery on
Plate ie original
of this ^ *Jie figure is
represented with a lofty
head-dress in addition to the
fillet of ribbon and the
golden asp here shown, but
for the sake of getting the

figure onlargea scale

enough to show clear details


the head-dress is omitted.
The person represented is
said to be Cleopatra dressed
30*
as a goddess.
Fig. 1

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