Title: Figured woven silk textile fragment with birds
Object type: Textile
Date: 5th–6th century
Culture: Byzantine
Medium: Silk, weft-faced compound twill (Samit) weave
Dimensions: Overall: 3 3/4 x 22 3/4in. (9.5 x 57.8cm)
Classification: Textiles-Woven
Credit line: Purchase, Josef and Marsy Mittleman Gift and Rogers Fund, 2000
Department: Medieval Art
Repository: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Tags: term: Birds