Cleveland Museum of Art

Fragment of a Tiraz

Date

932–40

Medium

silk embroidery on linen tabby ground

Culture

Egypt, Tunah, Ikhshidid period, Caliphate of al-Qahir or al-Radi, AH 320-329 (A.D. 932-940)

Department

Textiles

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

The design consists of a broad five partite decorative band with geometric ornamentation in red, red and green, and yellow and dark blue, and a single line of Arabic text embroidered in red on the plain ecru linen cloth. This inscription, extremely damaged and fragmentary, has been deciphered only in part.

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