Cleveland Museum of Art
Hunters on Horseback
- Date
- late 700s–800s
- Medium
- Plain weave and tapestry weave; undyed linen, dyed wool
- Culture
- Egypt, Islamic Abbasid period, late 8th to 9th century
- Department
- Textiles
- Institution
- Cleveland Museum of Art
The Byzantine theme of the hunt is depicted with archers on horseback. They face each other because the design was based on costlier Byzantine silks with mirror-image symmetry.
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