# Fragment

- Date: before 1961
- Medium: Silk: lampas weave
- Classification: Textile
- Dimensions: Overall: 71.1 x 95 cm (28 x 37 3/8 in.)
- Culture: Iraq or Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)
- Credit line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Museum: [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://clevelandart.org/art/1961.34)
- Rights: [Public domain (CC0)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1961.34/1961.34_web.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

The fragment preserves a tree of life flanked by a pair of large confronted simurghs, resembling peacocks, that grasp ibexes in their talons. A pair of small goats stand confronted and regardant at the base of the tree. Behind each ibex is a small palmette tree. The fragment constitutes the center third of a complete loom piece. The pattern is dark purplish brown on a golden brown ground.