Cleveland Museum of Art
Fragment (of a Shroud?) with Inscription
- Date
- before 1982
- Medium
- Silk: lampas weave
- Culture
- Iran or Iraq, in the style of the Abbasid period (750–1258)
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Object ID
- 150889
From the Cleveland Museum of Art record
This fragment, which possibly was part of a shroud, has wide horizontal bands of birds and fish alternating with narrow double bands of inscription. The text reads in both orthograde and retrograde: "Oh Lord! Even though my sins may be very great, I know that Thy forgiveness is greater." Bands are alternately blue and tan with design in white. A portion of selvage is preserved at right and a starting edge at bottom.
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Provenance & credit
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- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Provenance
- ?-1982: (Goumaronart, Inc., Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) | 1982-: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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