Fragment with Lion Strangler from a Dalmatic of Saint Bernard Calvo (Q60755259)
Label from: English (en)
collection:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
material used:
silk (Q37681)
gold thread (Q29586582)
time period:
13th century (Q7049)
catalog URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1950.146
information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog
description: Within the elaborate roundel, a bearded man with a belted tunic strangles a lion in each hand. Gold thread shimmers on their heads and his hands. In the inscription band across the top, an Arabic word has been written with mirror-image symmetry. It can be read as
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