Fragment
date: label: Date
content: 3rd–4th century
notes: label: Catalogue Status
content: Research in Progress
label: Description
content: Fragment of a tapestry-woven square. Monochrome type, dark purple-brown wool and undyed linen. In a medallion in the center, a figure stands astride a spotted feline, holding its tail. A serpentine border from which spring leaves of different shapes surrounds the figure. The four corner spandrels contain Nereids or Victories with cloaks spread out behind them. The upper two are affronted, the lower two addorsed. At the four sides of the figure appear animals: a hare at each side and a lion at the top and bottom.
place: label: made in
content: Egypt
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content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
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content: Textiles Department
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Gift of John Pierpont Morgan
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 1902-1-86
objectType: label: Type
content: woven textiles
label: Type
content: Fragment
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: CC0
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: Medium: Warp: S-spun linen. Weft: S-spun wool, S-spun linen Technique: slit tapestry with supplementary weft wrapping (soumak)
label: Dimensions
content: H x W: 17.8 x 17.2 cm (7 x 6 3/4 in. )