Cleveland Museum of Art
Star and Cross Pattern from a Tomb Cover(?)
- Date
- 800s–900s
- Medium
- complementary weft-faced plain weave with inner warps (samit); silk
- Culture
- Byzantium, Islamic or Byzantine periods, 9th -10th Century
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
This fragment is one of several that may have come from a tomb in the Caucasus (the region between the Black and Caspian seas). The design displays rows of eight-pointed stars, here with a rooster on a blue ground, alternating with striped pointed crosses.
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