id:			130610
accession number:	1953.331
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.331
updated:		2023-12-08 21:48:52.919000

Fragment with running animal roundels and kufic inscriptions, 1530–1950 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability). Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055). Silk: lampas weave, brocaded; overall: 35.3 x 25 cm (13 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1953.331

title:				Fragment with running animal roundels and kufic inscriptions
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creation date:			1530–1950 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability)
creation date earliest:		1530
creation date latest:		1950
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)
technique:	Silk: lampas weave, brocaded
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 35.3 x 25 cm (13 7/8 x 9 13/16 in.)
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inscriptions:

	inscription:	[daygha]m wa-kam asadan rawwa'a juhur kilab aya asadan fi jismihi ruh. . .
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	inscription:	. . .aya asadan fi jismihi ruh daygham wa-kam asadan rawwa'a [ju]hur kilab aya asadan fi. . .
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	inscription:	inni i'taqadtu bi-wa'idka wa-'adlika
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	inscription:	wa-arhab ihsanika [wa-fad]lika
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PROVENANCE

	Originally reported to have been found at Bibi Shahr Banu near Rayy, Persia
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	(Heeramaneck Galleries, New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1953
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1953-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Blair, Sheila S., Jonathan M. Bloom, and Anne E. Wardwell. "Reevaluating the Date of the "Buyid" Silks by Epigraphic and Radiocarbon Analysis." <em>Ars Orientalis</em> 22 (1992): 1-41.
	page number: 	Reproduced: p. 34; Mentioned: p. 15
	url:		http://www.jstor.org/stable/4629423

	Mackie, Louise W. <em>Symbols of Power: Luxury Textiles from Islamic Lands, 7th-21st Century</em>. Cleveland; New Haven: Cleveland Museum of Art; Yale University Press, 2015.
	page number: 	Reproduced: P.154, fig. 4b; Mentioned: P. 154-155
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