Collection record · Dress & textiles
Lower Section of a Tunic
The collection record classifies this work as textile. It is dated 400s CE. Recorded culture or place: Egypt, Byzantine period.
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- Museum title
- Lower Section of a Tunic
- Date
- 400s CE
- Culture / origin
- Egypt, Byzantine period
- Materials and technique
- Undyed linen and dyed wool: tapestry weave with supplementary weft wrapping
- Dimensions
- Overall: 54.9 x 106.7 cm (21 5/8 x 42 in.); Mounted: 67.3 x 118.1 cm (26 1/2 x 46 1/2 in.)
- Artist / maker
- Not specified by the museum
- Museum
- The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Accession number
- 1993.177
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The following description is reproduced from the Cleveland Museum of Art’s original English record.
This is the bottom section of a well-woven wool unisex tunic. Various stylized roundels with animals and baskets decorate the hem that extends into round finials with birds. The interior two square panels complete the design. Extra wefts, or horizontal threads, enrich the animals and the deep blue ground, probably a failed purple dye. While the robe itself is created from linen, the fringes at the bottom are made from wool.
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The Cleveland Museum of Art · Gift of William E. Ward in memory of his wife, Evelyn Svec Ward · CC0
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