{"data": {"id": 161684, "accession_number": "2000.5", "share_license_status": "CC0", "tombstone": "Curtain Panel with Scenes of Merrymaking, 500s. Egypt, Byzantine period. Linen, undyed; wool: dyed; tapestry weave with supplementary weft wrapping; overall: 144.2 x 57.1 cm (56 3/4 x 22 1/2 in.); mounted: 153.7 x 66 x 3.2 cm (60 1/2 x 26 x 1 1/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund and Gift of the Textile Art Alliance in memory of Robert P. Bergman, 2000.5", "current_location": "106A Migration Period & Coptic", "title": "Curtain Panel with Scenes of Merrymaking", "creation_date": "500s", "creation_date_earliest": 500, "creation_date_latest": 599, "artists_tags": [], "culture": ["Egypt, Byzantine period"], "technique": "Linen, undyed; wool: dyed; tapestry weave with supplementary weft wrapping", "support_materials": [], "department": "Textiles", "collection": "T - Coptic", "type": "Textile", "measurements": "Overall: 144.2 x 57.1 cm (56 3/4 x 22 1/2 in.); Mounted: 153.7 x 66 x 3.2 cm (60 1/2 x 26 x 1 1/4 in.)", "dimensions": {"overall": {"height": 1.442, "height_inch": 56, "height_inch_fraction": 0.75, "width": 0.571, "width_inch": 22, "width_inch_fraction": 0.5}, "mounted": {"height": 1.537, "height_inch": 60, "height_inch_fraction": 0.5, "width": 0.66, "width_inch": 26, "width_inch_fraction": 0.0, "depth": 0.032, "depth_inch": 1, "depth_inch_fraction": 0.25}}, "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": 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": 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 (September 11, 2000-October 21, 2001).", "opening_date": "2000-09-11T00:00:00"}]}, "provenance": [], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "The textile industry drove the Egyptian economy, dominated by the flax plant from which linen is derived.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "This large panel conveys merrymaking, wealth, and power through its symbolic imagery and deep purple color. It was originally part of a luxurious wide curtain with similar panels alternating with plain linen panels. Although woven in Christian Egypt, the panel is dominated by pagan subjects. A nude male stands beside a dancing female in transparent clothing in each of the three squares, alternating with centaurs (half-man, half-horse creatures) in roundels. In the central square, Dionysus, the god of wine, holds a grapevine and a weary Hercules leans on his club below. The lively animal imagery conveys wealth because few could afford animals such as lions, bulls, and hares.", "external_resources": {"wikidata": ["https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79984721"], "internet_archive": ["https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-2000.5-curtain-panel-with-s"]}, "citations": [{"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, \u201cRecent Acquisitions Press Release,\u201d March 17, 2000, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives.", "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 2", "url": "https://archive.org/details/cmapr4321"}, {"citation": "Mackie, Louise W. \"A Coptic Curtain.\" <em>Cleveland Art: Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine</em> 40, no. 10 (December 2000): 4-5.", "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: p. 4-5", "url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAMM2000-10/page/n3/mode/2up"}, {"citation": "Gertsman, Elina and Barbara H. Rosenwein. <em>The Middle Ages in 50 Objects</em>. 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