Cleveland Museum of Art

Fragment of a Tiraz

Date

1058–60

Medium

Linen and silk: tapestry (originally inwoven in a tabby ground)

Culture

Egypt, Fatimid period, Caliphate of al-Mustansir, 1000s

Department

Textiles

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The tripartite band consists of a central band with a frieze of paired, confronted griffins, framed by oval cartouches which are delineated only by the joined trifoliate motifs which fill the spandrels. On either side are opposing lines of Arabic text in Kufic script. The two lines of inscription, both of which are incomplete, appear to represent repetitions of a single text.

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