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Wade Fund, 1952.102", "current_location": "106A Migration Period & Coptic", "title": "Roundel with curvilinear palmette tree, from a tunic", "creation_date": "600\u2013850", "creation_date_earliest": 600, "creation_date_latest": 850, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Egypt or Syria(?)"], "technique": "Silk; complementary weft-faced twill weave with inner warps (samite)", "support_materials": [], "department": "Textiles", "collection": "Textiles", "type": "Textile", "measurements": "Overall: 20.6 x 19 cm (8 1/8 x 7 1/2 in.); Mounted: 27.9 x 26.7 cm (11 x 10 1/2 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 0.206, "height_inch": 8, "height_inch_fraction": 0.125, "width": 0.19, "width_inch": 7, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5}, "mounted": {"height": 0.279, "height_inch": 11, "height_inch_fraction": 0.0, "width": 0.267, "width_inch": 10, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5}}, "state_of_the_work": null, "edition_of_the_work": null, "copyright": null, "inscriptions": [], "exhibitions": {"current": [{"id": 437400, "title": "Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation", "description": "<i>Byzantine Gallery 210 Rotation</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 16, 2002-October 27, 2003).", "opening_date": "2002-10-16T04:00:00"}, {"id": 383038, "title": "Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106", "description": "<i>Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 20, 2013-March 17, 2014).", "opening_date": "2013-05-07T04:00:00"}, {"id": 282101, "title": "Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106", "description": "<i>Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 12, 2016-May 22, 2017).", "opening_date": "2016-04-12T04:00:00"}, {"id": 447668, "title": "Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106", "description": "<i>Coptic Textile Rotation Gallery 106</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (November 18, 2021-November 13, 2022).", "opening_date": "2021-11-18T05:00:00"}], "legacy": [{"description": "Gallery 210 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (October 16, 2002-October 27, 2003).", "opening_date": "2002-10-16T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [{"description": "said to have been found in Akhmim, Egypt", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": null, "sortorder": null}, {"description": "(Mme. Paul Marguerite] Mallon [d. 1977], Paris, France, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "?\u20131952", "sortorder": 2}, {"description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": null, "date": "1952\u2013", "sortorder": 3}], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "This elaborate pattern was woven on a large, early loom known as a drawloom that automatically repeated designs across the width of the fabric.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "Originally, roundels like this were cut and sewn onto the front and back of a tunic, probably linen, in Egypt. They belong to a sizeable group of comparable silk decorations found in Akhmim, Egypt. 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