Collection record · Dress & textiles
Square Ornament from a Tunic
The collection record classifies this work as textile. It is dated 700s. Recorded culture or place: Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661–750) or Abbasid period (750–1258).
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- Museum title
- Square Ornament from a Tunic
- Date
- 700s
- Culture / origin
- Egypt or Syria, Umayyad period (661–750) or Abbasid period (750–1258)
- Materials and technique
- Silk; complementary weft-faced twill weave with inner warps (samite)
- Dimensions
- Overall: 23.5 x 24.2 cm (9 1/4 x 9 1/2 in.); Mounted: 31.1 x 31.8 cm (12 1/4 x 12 1/2 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1947.192
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
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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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund · CC0
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