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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Henry Hunt Clark, 1946.412", "current_location": null, "title": "Roundel from a Curtain", "creation_date": "300s CE", "creation_date_earliest": 300, "creation_date_latest": 399, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Egypt, Byzantine period"], "technique": "plain weave ground with tapestry weave and supplementary weft wrapping; undyed linen and dyed wool", "support_materials": [], "department": "Textiles", "collection": "T - Coptic", "type": "Textile", "measurements": "Overall: 45.2 x 47.7 cm (17 13/16 x 18 3/4 in.); Mounted: 64.1 x 64.1 x 2.5 cm (25 1/4 x 25 1/4 x 1 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.452, "height_inch": 17, "height_inch_fraction": 0.8125, "width": 0.477, "width_inch": 18, "width_inch_fraction": 0.75}, "mounted": {"height": 0.641, "height_inch": 25, "height_inch_fraction": 0.25, "width": 0.641, "width_inch": 25, "width_inch_fraction": 0.25, "depth": 0.025, "depth_inch": 1, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.0}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 437387, "title": "Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation", "description": "<i>Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 12, 2000-October 25, 2001).", "opening_date": "2000-09-12T04:00:00"}, {"id": 437416, "title": "Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation", "description": "<i>Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 2004-July 18, 2005).", "opening_date": "2004-10-29T04:00:00"}, {"id": 181802, "title": "The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art", "description": "<i>The Persistence of Geometry: Form, Content and Culture in the Collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art</i>. Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA), Cleveland, OH (June 9-August 20, 2006).", "opening_date": "2006-06-09T00:00:00"}, {"id": 383006, "title": "Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106", "description": "<i>Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 4, 2011-May 21, 2012).", "opening_date": "2011-04-04T04:00:00"}, {"id": 232952, "title": "Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity", "description": "<i>Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity</i>. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, NY, New York, NY (February 25-May 22, 2016).", "opening_date": "2016-02-25T00:00:00"}, {"id": 343673, "title": "Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106", "description": "<i>Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 23, 2017-May 14, 2018).", "opening_date": "2017-05-23T04:00:00"}, {"id": 457591, "title": "Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106", "description": "<i>Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 21, 2022-November 12, 2023).", "opening_date": "2022-11-12T05:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "Gallery 210 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11, 2000-October 21, 2001); (October 29, 2004-July 18, 2005).", "opening_date": "2000-09-11T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The purple color was achieved with kermes, a dye derived from the dried bodies of insects of the same name.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This circular element called a roundel that originally decorated a curtain displays a perfectly interlaced knot, a design believed to provide protection from harm. Curtains were often used as modular walls in houses, theaters, and Christian churches during the late Roman and early Christian periods.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60757766"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1946.412-roundel-from-a-curta"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Sims, Lowery Stokes. The persistence of geometry: form, content, and culture in the collection of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2006.", "page_number": "p. 21, 31, 116", "url": null}, {"citation": "Thomas, Thelma K. \"Making Textiles and Assessing Their Value.\" In <em>Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity. </em>Thelma K. Thomas, ed. 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