Textile
date: label: Date
content: 6th–8th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Length of tapestry band. Pattern consists of vertical arrangement of figures on orange center band at right angles to the warp. Figures of a standing man in a tunic waving an object with left hand raised alternate with an equestrian figure. All figures are greatly foreshortened, "squashed down" and misshapen. Horses are alternately pink and green. Outer borders of band red with tapestry woven undyed spirals at edges against the red ground.
place: label: made in
content: Egypt
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
label: See more items in
content: Textiles Department
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1948-84-1
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Textile
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: wool, linen Technique: tapestry
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 71.8 x 16.5 cm (28 1/4 x 6 1/2 in.)