Collection record · Dress & textiles
Fragment of Round Segmentum
The collection record classifies this work as textile. It is dated 400s–600s CE. Recorded culture or place: Africa, North Africa, Egypt, Coptic-style weaver(s).
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- Museum title
- Fragment of Round Segmentum
- Date
- 400s–600s CE
- Culture / origin
- Africa, North Africa, Egypt, Coptic-style weaver(s)
- Materials and technique
- Wool: tabby ground, inwoven tapestry ornament
- Dimensions
- Overall: 33 x 29.2 cm (13 x 11 1/2 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1982.271
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
Segmentum (medallions) like this decorated tunics in Coptic Egypt. Medallions were woven into a tunic’s shoulders or lower half. This medallion's design scheme displays waves encircling geometric shapes and representational images. It features a cross-legged dancer balanced on a vase with hands raised prayerfully. Other dancers clang cymbals while satyrs frolic below them. Coptic can refer to a language, an ethnic group, a religion, or an artistic style (which wasn’t always Christian). Coptic classical imagery reflects the Hellenized (Greek, 305–30 BC) and Roman cultures of Egypt (30 BC–AD 395) before the Byzantine era.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund · CC0
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