Cleveland Museum of Art
Fragment with Double-Headed "Simurgh"-Eagles
- Date
- before 1953
- Medium
- Silk: lampas weave
- Culture
- Iran or Iraq
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
Rows of aligned double-headed simurgh (eagles), in tan on a white ground supporting little winged human figures are within a grid consisting of horizontal bands of inscription in floriated Kufic lettering and palmette trees.
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