Antinoe

Every day new Coptic textile collections come
to the light in Catalonia and all over Spain.
Most of them come from private collections
and they get into both public and private
museums. The Coptic textile collection of the
Museu de Montserrat is not an exception.
This collection has its beginnings with the
relationship between Ramon Soler Vilabella,
a textile engineer and fabrics collector, and
Albert Gayet, a French archaeologist who
conducted the first archaeological expeditions
to Antinoë, Egypt. This article explains the
constitution of this collection, how it came to
the Museu de Montserrat, which are its most
relevant pieces, which cover a wide chronological
range, from the 4th to the 12th c. A.D.