The tablet-woven hangings of Tigre, Ethiopia: from history to symmetry
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The writer compares and contrasts two groups of silk and cotton tablet-woven hangings from Tigre, Ethiopia. Silk hangings now in the possession of the British Museum and the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, originally came from the treasury of the defeated King Tewodros in Maqdala. Following the introduction of these hangings to the scholarly community in 1990, another very important group of cotton tablet-woven hangings was found in three separate churches in the Tambien region of central Tigre. It is evident that these geographically concentrated cotton hangings are closely interrelated with each other and with their silken counterparts; most of the images in the figural registers represent ecclesiastical scenes or subjects, or lay figures with hands raised in prayer. The cotton hangings appear to have been woven without access to the royal silken ones, though using motifs inspired by them. They can be divided into those that maintain a semblance of the silk hangings' content and those in which the images have been taken out of context and are repetitive and/or symmetrical.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.003 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.004 | 0.006 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.006 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".