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9 - Textiles and Textile Trade in the First Millennium AD

Evidence from Egypt

from Part II - Trade in Organic Materials

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 November 2017

D. J. Mattingly
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
V. Leitch
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
C. N. Duckworth
Affiliation:
University of Newcastle upon Tyne
A. Cuénod
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
M. Sterry
Affiliation:
University of Leicester
F. Cole
Affiliation:
University College London, Qatar
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