Square Ornament from a Tunic (Q60758945)
Label from: English (en)
collection:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
location:
Cleveland Museum of Art (Q657415)
country of origin:
Umayyad Caliphate (Q8575586)
material used:
silk (Q37681)
fabrication method:
compound twill weave (Q64161345)
instance of:
textile artwork (Q22075301)
textile (Q28823)
catalog URL: https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1947.192
information from the Cleveland Museum of Art catalog
description: The folded edges on all four sides of this luxury silk fragment indicate that it decorated a unisex linen tunic. The symmetrical deer with suckling fawn flanking a simplified central tree of life continues an ancient theme in a naturalistic style. The roundel is connected on all four sides and displays heart-shaped floral borders. This fragment is said to have been found in Akhmim, Egypt, south of Cairo, where, during the 1880s, numerous related silk fragments were excavated.
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