Fragment with Inscription

Cleveland Museum of Art

Fragment with Inscription

Date
dated 818 (AH 203), but before 1978
Medium
Silk: compound weave
Culture
Iraq, Basrah, in the style of the Abbasid period (750–1258)
Department
Textiles
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art

An archer kneels to left of a tree and the hill to shoot at pair of deer. The polychrome design is repeated across horizontal rows on dark brown ground.

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