A winter Coptic tunic made of wool, dating back to the sixth to eighth centuries AD. Black in color with colored decorative bands and units. There is embroidery on the collar of the tunic that says "Lord have mercy" in Coptic between two small crosses. Sometimes there were embroideries showing the name of the owner of the tunic and his social rank.The tunic is small in size, usually belonging to a child, and these tunics were worn by Coptic men, women and children, and were exported to all the peoples of the region along with other Coptic textiles that were famous for their elegance and quality. From the collections of the Walters Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA.

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