Cleveland Museum of Art

Fragment of Tomb Cover

Date

before 1955

Medium

Silk: double-face compound twill

Culture

Iran or Iraq

Department

Textiles

Institution

Cleveland Museum of Art

In ivory on a dark brown ground a large-scale roundel is framed by a frieze of running animals containing a pair of confronted ibex on either side of a tree of life. Above is preserved the bottom portion of an identical roundel, and to either side of the main roundel is a fragment from the upper part of a repeated roundel, interrupted by the inclusion of a vertical inscription band in Kufic lettering.

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