id:			130763
accession number:	1953.476
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1953.476
updated:		2025-05-24 12:02:25.851000

Fragment (from a Tunic?), 500s. Egypt, Byzantine period. Compound tabby; wool; overall: 16.5 x 38.1 cm (6 1/2 x 15 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1953.476

title:				Fragment (from a Tunic?)
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creation date:			500s
creation date earliest:		500
creation date latest:		599
current location:		116 Islamic
creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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culture:	Egypt, Byzantine period
technique:	compound tabby; wool
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Coptic
type:		Textile
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measurements: Overall: 16.5 x 38.1 cm (6 1/2 x 15 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation)
	opening date:   2025-05-24T04:00:00
	<i>Art of the Islamic World (Islamic art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (May 24, 2025-May 10, 2026).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Adolph Loewi, Los Angeles).
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Mossakowska-Gaubert, Maria. “Tunics Worn in Egypt in Roman and Byzantine Times: The Greek Vocabulary.” In <em>Textile Terminologies from the Orient to the Mediterranean and Europe, 1000 BC to 1000 AD</em>,  pp. 321-345. Salvatore Gaspa, Cécile Michel, and Marie-Louise Nosch, editors. Lincoln, NE: Zea Books, 2017.<br>.
	page number: 	pp. 327–329
	url:		https://doi.org/10.13014/K2XD0ZVC

	Wetter, Evelin, Kathryn Starkey, and Laurent Auberson. <em>Animals in Text and Textile: Storytelling in the Medieval World.</em> Riggisberg: Abegg-Stiftung, 2019.
	page number: 	Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 77, fig. 38, p. 78
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IMAGES

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