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"tombstone": "Fragment with Lion Strangler from a Dalmatic of Saint Bernard Calvo, 1200\u20131243. Spain, Almeria. Silk and gold thread: lampas, taquet\u00e9, and plain-weave variant; overall: 43.8 x 39.7 cm (17 1/4 x 15 5/8 in.); mounted: 53 x 49.8 cm (20 7/8 x 19 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1950.146",
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"title": "Fragment with Lion Strangler from a Dalmatic of Saint Bernard Calvo",
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"inscription": "the inscription (incorrectly written) appears to read \"al-'amir\" (command, i.e. authority) [alternately retrograde and vice versa].",
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"description": "from tomb of St. Bernard Calvo, Bishop of Vich, who died in 1243; this fragment from one of vestments found in tomb at the Cathedral of Vich when it was opened at the end of the 19th century",
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"description": "Within the elaborate roundel, a bearded man with a belted tunic strangles a lion in each hand. Gold thread shimmers on their heads and his hands. In the inscription band across the top, an Arabic word has been written with mirror-image symmetry. It can be read as al-yumn, primarily translated as prosperity.
The central motif of this renowned silk is a pre- Islamic Persian symbol of royal power. Both Muslims and Christians throughout the Iberian Peninsula admired such textiles. Members of the Catholic clergy incorporated it into a dalmatic\u2014a long ceremonial tunic. It was found in the late 1800s in the tomb of Saint Bernard Calvo, Bishop of Vich (1180\u20131243).",
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"citation": "Shepherd, Dorothy. \"Two Medieval Silks from Spain.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 45, no. 1 (January 1958): 3-7.",
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