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Fragment with Inscription
dated 818 (AH 203), but before 1978
- Medium
- Silk: compound weave
- Classification
- Textile
- Dimensions
- Overall: 66.5 x 45 cm (26 3/16 x 17 11/16 in.)
- Culture
- Iraq, Basrah, in the style of the Abbasid period (750–1258)
- Museum
- Cleveland Museum of Art, Textiles
- Credit line
- Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed
View at the Cleveland Museum of Art
About this work
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.
