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Coptic Women's Headpieces: padded headbands and Palmyran strips
Neither of these have much (...in the first case, any) information out there to make their own post about, but they're both interesting.
The first are these padded headpieces. In the past I'd only seen the one made of leather with flowers on it in the V&A, which notes its possible usage. However it was only until recently when I began poking around on the French internet when I found more, and better yet, an undeniable depiction of a woman wearing the headpiece. Before this I'd seen some depictions that may be the headpiece being worn, but usually seem much flatter than these were made to be or like they're a more standard gold diadem.
In addition to this, there are a few depictions of Coptic figures wearing these flower bud/petal crowns (more popular in the earlier part of Roman Egyptian art history), which makes me wonder if these were ever used as a base for those.
It's also possible this was out under the turbans worn by women in Coptic art. An example of a bust from Byzantine exists of a woman wearing a turban from Constantinople, and when viewed from the side it can be seen that the volume at the front of her headdress terminates in points near the nape of her neck/her ears. However, this bust also lacks the volume one would expect from the examples if a roll like the extant examples was used.
The other piece is one I noticed before, and isn't specific to Egypt, or originated from there. It seems to have come from Palmyra, and is fairly common in the funeral busts we have from there.
These are small plaques of metal and gems, typically with a few small beads dangling over the forehead. Currently it's supposed that they were attached to a woman's bun in some way.
Here's a Roman-era Greek bust and a Roman- era Tunisian example.
Heres some Roman-Egyptian portraits with similar head jewelry. So far, I haven't found a definitive later Coptic depiction of one being worn, but I don't think that means they stopped being worn before Christianization. It's possibly just a matter of what art has survived and what I've personally seen. Generally, Coptic jewelry is similar to the jewelry from earlier Roman-Egyptian examples, with some more unique examples and examples that were inspired by later trends in the Byzantine Empire.
One of the possible Coptic examples is from the tomb of Theodosea (full disclosure: Theodosea herself was Greek Christian living Egypt, not a Copt in the sense we mean it now, but she's dressed in a way generally common in Egypt at the time. I use "possible Coptic example" here to indicate the contemporary cultural majority of Egypt, which is distinct from the pre-Christian cultural identity of native Egyptians). Theodosea here is identified by Engy Hanna as wearing some type of golden hairnet, with a green pendant with 3 hanging pearls and two strings of hanging beads attached. Because of her palla, it's impossible to tell if she has only one medallion attached to her hairnet or if this is a strip. The overall composition of elements (a cover over the hair, the two strands, center ornament, and a shawl over top the head) are very similar to Palmyran headdresses, though she doesn't wear a turban or the patterned fillet they do.
Recently, I found a bust on an auction site labeled "Roman, probably made in Egypt" from the 1st century, with this ornament but made of a more pliable material- probably fabric. And another on the same site, maybe Egyptian (the information mentions both the terms Gandhara and Greco-Egyptian), with the more typical jeweled look, 2nd-3rd century (which is more into the swing of Christianization in Egypt).
The last aside is another jewelry piece resembling that of Palmyra, though less so: a kind of circlet that appears to be made of chain with a center pendant. The star pendant worn by the second woman also notably resembles the pin holding the strip to the Greek girl's updo. The hanging strands of Theodosea are more blatant, but it's possible these were elaboration on the fashion. This style of jeweled forehead circlet, unlike the headband and strip (I have seen art of Syrian and Egyptian women with a strip, as well as Nubian art of women with a fillet/circlet and a center strip. The latter seems to be a more widely used item than the former two, which I have only seen one depiction each of so far), has remained consistently popular in West Asia and North Africa. Additionally the padded band worn by one of the Palmyran women featured here could be a related item to the padded headband; to know one would have to see the back of her head or find an artifact connecting the two. Even if a relationship can be proven between the Byzantine, Palmyran, and Coptic padded fillets, there is no clear indication of where it originated.
*I am a Copt, and if you are not, do not tag this post talking about "recreations". I find that offensive given the actions taken by Albert Gayet in regard to the clothes he took from graves. It is a simple boundary and you will not "enlighten" me to see how it's fine.*
Sources/Further reading:
https://art.rmngp.fr/fr/library/artworks/femme-assise_terre-cuite_polychromie-technique
https://art.rmngp.fr/fr/library/artworks/bourrelet-de-coiffure-postiches_laine-textile
https://art.rmngp.fr/fr/library/artworks/bourrelet-de-manteau_laine-textile
https://art.rmngp.fr/fr/library/artworks/bourrelet-de-mantelet_laine-textile_textile-matiere_lin-fibre | sources for 3 of the padded fillets and the figurine
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O353014/pair-of-fillets-unknown/
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/468716 | the marble bust
https://www.persee.fr/doc/bch_0007-4217_1969_num_93_2_4903 | in German, has photos of carvings with the hair ornament
https://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2016/ancient-marbles-classical-sculpture-art-l16260/lot.59.html | carving of the short haired child
https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/ancient-sculpture-and-works-of-art/a-roman-marble-portrait-head-of-a-girl-circa-2nd | carving of a girl with a jeweled strip, may be Egypt as the notes say an image of it was published in a work on Greco-Egyptian art and the girl has an "Isis lock" hairstyle
https://www.jstor.org/stable/4241695 | overview of Palmyran jewelry
https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/G_1903-0717-3 | Tunisian example of strip
https://www.livius.org/pictures/greece/thessaloniki/thessaloniki-museum-pieces/thessaloniki-portrait-of-a-girl/
https://womenofegyptmag.com/2020/02/11/what-coptic-artefacts-tell-us-about-women-in-ancient-egypt-part-one/
#Coptic art#Coptic culture#Late Antiquity#Late Antique Egypt#Masr#Copt#Actually Egyptian tag#Cipher talk
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[ ID: Black and white photo of a woman with dark, curly hair wearing a long, dark veil, which she holds slightly open, a long, white face veil, with lace details, and a long, dark dress. She faces forward. The caption reads: "Comptoir Philatélique d'Egypte. - Alexandrie" and "Egypte. - Femme copte". /End ID ]
Source: De Guerville, A. B. "New Egypt." E.P. Dutton & Company, New York, 1906. p. 148. https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Veiled_Woman_(1906)_-_TIMEA.jpg
#far.images#christianity#copt#coptic#veil#veiling#modesty#egypt#north africa#africa#arab#levant#mashriq#found this on pinterest and thought it was a lovely photo
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I found Jesus Christ; through His Mother
About eight years ago, I learned about Christ from my alma mater. I was from a Catholic School when I was younger and it made it easier for me to be exposed to Christ. They made me intrigued about the Sign of the Cross, which I thought was shirk that time. I was still a Muslim and I tended to argue and debate about the existence of Christ with the Catholics around me. They were really lovely to me as they argued with me, while I was rude, constantly accusing them of shirk for believing that a man could actually be God as well. I had a hard time understanding the incarnation of the Word.
In order to argue with them, I had to learn more about my own religion and I wasn't sent to any Islamic Religious Schools when I was younger. In a sense, you can say that I was not indoctrinated by Islamic knowledge since young so my mind was still open to other views and perspectives. Regardless, I was raised to find Christians wrong, and that Islam is the true religion. While reading the Quran, it was then that I chanced upon Surah Maryam. In Surah Maryam, Mary was indeed the most blessed amongst women, and she was a perpetual virgin yet she bore a child from God. This was in reference to our Blessed Virgin Mary. Once I read this, I felt a veil being lifted from my eyelids as I can finally see the truth. I wanted to get closer to her and understand God from her perspective so I started learning Hail Mary. I prayed it daily and I think it was then that I was given the wisdom of God to finally understand God's love for us.
Mary was indeed the Mother of God, the Mother of Christ and the Mother of all Humanity. She showed me the path to her son, leading me silently to the Cross to gaze upon the wounds and cross of her Son and God. It was such a beautiful experience. It is then that I decided that I have to learn more about Christ. I approached a friend who I used to argue with and asked her if she could bring me to Church. I chose Holy Thursday to visit a Church and while the priest was washing the feet to symbolise the apostles, I cried profusely. I don't know why I cried but I was so happy. I had this feeling of intense joy and love in my heart. I truly wanted to become baptised as a Christian, I wanted to be with Christ. It was that day that I decide to formally enrol myself in RCIA. It went well for a while and I was allowed to be initiated as a candidate.
Sadly, these changed when my parents found my bible in my room. On that day, I forgot to bring my bible to school like I always do. Mom called me home immediately, and I felt queasy and worried but I went home anyway without thinking too much. When I got home, I went to the toilet to shower after a long day. When I came out of the showers, my crucifixes, rosaries and books were strewn on the floor. They asked what was I doing with Christian materials. At first I wanted to say that I kept these for my friend, but the Holy Spirit stirred me to tell the truth. I told them that I wanted to learn more about Christianity and that I believed in Christ. They were so enraged, Mom immediately cried while screaming telling me to renounce Christ and that Mary is not God, I should not worship her. Dad got up and started to hit me, he told met to say the shahada or he will continue hitting me. It got to the point where he took a knife, and threatened death, if I were to remain silent and not recite the shahada, renouncing Christ. This went on for a while, I was saved from death but the beatings continued till I couldn’t take it anymore. I said the shahada, and saw all my things thrown away in the trash. I ran to my room and cried, I was angry at God as to how he could ignore me and my sufferings when I was there confessing my faith in Him. However, I didn’t know that He was planning for me to get exposed to the Coptic Orthodox Church.
I knew about the Coptic Orthodox Church through the 21 Libyan Martyrs who were martyred for professing their faith in front of ISIS even while they were threatened martyrdom. What stood out for me was one of them who was not a Copt, he exclaimed that he believed in the God of the rest. He believed in Christ even if he was not a Coptic Christian. That spoke to me and inspired me to attend the Coptic Orthodox Church services through my friend who introduced them to me. I was taught the ways of the Eastern theology, and a Coptic-centric one. I loved the Coptic Church and I felt at home in it. It is then with God’s blessing that our Bishop, Anba Daniel of Sydney came to visit us. I talked to Sayedna, telling him everything from start to end. He told me that he would love to ensure that I am baptised.
It is then with God’s blessing that I was baptised on 06/08/2017.
I am so thankful that I knew him and I remind myself daily that I was led to Christ not because I hated Islam but because I learnt of the love that God had for us. He loved us so much that he took flesh, suffered and died for us on the Cross. I am still a secret Christian - I might have to pray the salah, secretly go to Church and pray yet thankfully with God's grace I am alive, safe & able to continue my worship towards the one true God
That was the story of my whole conversion experience from Islam to Christianity
"You did not choose me: No, I chose you; and I commissioned you to go out and bear fruit, fruit that will last."
John 15:16
#Catholic#Catholicism#CopticOrthodox#CopticCatholic#CopticCatholicism#Copt#Orthodox#Orthodoxy#OrthodoxChurch#CatholicChurch#Christianity#Christian#EasternCatholic#EasternCatholicism#CopticChurch#CopticOrthodoxy
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my number one solace is Coptic music rn. I’ve come full circle back 2 my roots (The Better Life Group)
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in all honesty i feel there shouldn't be any christmas celebrations at all until palestine is free
#and i don't mean until ceasfire. i mean until it's free.#pope shenouda was 100% right when he banned his coptic people from going on pilgrimage to jerusalem so long as it's occupied by israel#because he said 1- we shouldn't be able to go there while palestinian christians and muslims are banned from going to their holy sites#and 2- while jerusalem is occupied all ''tourism money'' it gets goes to israel which pours into the zionist war machine#he was absolutely right to ban the pilgrimages and to establish strong coptic/palestinian solidarity#and i can't help but feel like tawadros is falling short of the bar that shenouda set#he made a statement on behalf of copts denouncing israel and supporting palestine which is. nice. but he can do more.#i sincerely hope he imposes a ban on celebrations at least this year. at least.
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With a lot of my Amazigh content lately, it has been critical of Arabs.
I do want to clarify I am not anti-Arab nor do I believe in supremacist structures or pan-x-isms within our MENA region.
I am very vocally pro-Palestine and anyone using the struggles of the Imazighen people to justify the apartheid regime is not speaking for me. I am anti-Zionist and I am pro-Jewish.
Panafricanism and Panarabism are two very complex discussions to be had that require an intense level of self-criticism to avoid entrenching criticism in pre-existing biases.
Never on my pages will I tolerate anti-marginalised group rhetoric, no matter who they are or what personal issues I have with them or people within their diasporas.
I am still a very proud mixed Amazigh woman and will continue to speak on the issues my ethnic group experiences from other groups of people, and show the Siwi culture as best as I can to those who wish to learn more about the Imazighen. 
I have nothing but love and respect for my Arab, Persian, Levantine, Copt, Nubian, Bedouin, Amazigh, Jewish, etc brothers and sisters of the MENA region.
#important#amazigh#imazighen#north african#north africa#arab#jewish#palestine#my personal views#egypt#egyptian#siwi#MENA#SWANA#arabian peninsula#imazighen excellence not imazighen supremacy#levantine#persian#copt#nubian#bedouin
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Very silly Slayers + Dungeon Meshi doodling.
#slayers#the slayers#dungeon meshi#delicious in dungeon#lina inverse#filia ul copt#marcille donato#laios touden#falin touden#senshi#gourry gabriev#I used komodo dragon fighting as a reference
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Egypt
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Fire Girl and Witty Boy are my favorite
#wilson percival higgsbury#dst wilson#dst willow#dont starve together#dontstarvetogether#dont starve#dontstarve#willowson#psychonauts#psychonauts lili#psychonauts razputin#slayers try#slayers#xelloss#xellos#filia ul copt
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They would get along, I think.
Until Marcille finds out Filia is actually a Dragon…
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Who gave her a knife
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A vintage engraving of a Coptic maiden (Koptebmädchen) from Ferdinand Hirts Geographische bildtafeln, Vol. 3
#cipher talk#actually egyptian tag#Copt#Coptic#I'm not sure what's up with her headdress tbh#The textures are very odd#My guess is she's probably wearing a cap or kerchief and all the other stuff is jewelry and that's not her hair#But I'm not sure
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Copts in Egypt as percentage of governorats population.
by cactusmapping
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Imagine being a Copt in Egypt. Your people are descended from the actual ancient Egyptians, dating back to 3200 BCE.
Then, Arab invaders come in 641 AD, and not only claim to be Egyptians with thousands of years of rich history on your land, but then forcibly occupy your land, burn down your places of worship, destroy your history, while converting you (under punishment of death) to their foreign ideology.
This is how Jews who know history feel when there are 2.5 million Arab occupiers, mostly Egyptians, who's ancestors, in reality, were occupiers of Egypt who came from the Arabian Peninsula, living in Gaza (Jewish land since 145 BC), and claim it’s their land and that they are ‘Palestinans’ - a colonizer term for Jews who lived IN Israel from 136 AD - 1948 and endured 1,812 years of occupation.
This was written by Lauren Lipsky, CEO and Founder of "Taking Back The Narrative."
https://tbtnisrael.com/about-taking-back-the-narrative/
#palestinians#palestjne#israel#secular-jew#jewish#judaism#israeli#jerusalem#diaspora#secular jew#secularjew#islam#islamic jihad#Copts#Coptic#Egypt#Islamic colonizers#colonizers#colonization#Islamism#occupation#Islamic occupation#Lauren lipsky#taking back the narrative
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Slayers TRY eyecatches!
(While most of these eyecatches had some degree of movement/animation/overlayed effects, the final 3 eyecatches in the photoset had some degree of animation/unique frames that I found interesting enough to take multiple snapshots of each, haha)
#slayers try#eyecatch#slayers#lina inverse#gourry gabriev#amelia wil tesla seyruun#zelgadis greywords#filia ul copt#xellos metallium#jillas#chaos dragon gaav#valgaav#sylphiel nels lahda#uhh i'm blanking on the other characters' pictured names. i'll try and remember and come back and tag them#also got the chibis i'll post those separately
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every time i see someone surprised to see a non muslim say 'allah' i remember my personal favourite tweet
#ARREST ME 😭😭😭#(i actually took 'coptic' out of my url once because people would recognize the word cop but not copt)
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