Coptic monuments
Coptic Monuments is a catalogue of Coptic sculpture published in Cairo in 1902 by the scholar Walter Ewing Crum, issued for specialists in early Christian and Egyptian antiquities. Its plates show carved grave stones and funerary slabs photographed flat against a plain page, with crosses, knotwork and inscriptions cut into weathered limestone. A designer might take their stark, weathered stone textures and the interlaced geometric cross patterns as sources for ancient, monumental graphic motifs.
