Cleveland Museum of Art

Roundel with Amazons, from a tunic

Date: 600s–800s
Medium: samite: silk
Culture: Egypt or Syria(?)
Department: Textiles
Institution: Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID: 129206

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Within a roundel are a pair of mounted Amazons (women warriors) shooting backward at lions, which attack their running horses. The roundel frame is filled with stylized floral motifs and is bordered on the inside by a band of tiny hearts. The dark purple weft yarn was dyed with kermes and indigo.

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Credit line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Provenance: found in Akhmim, Egypt | ?–1952: (Mrs. Paul [Marguerite] Mallon [d. 1977], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1952–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH