id: 148336 accession number: 1975.6 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1975.6 updated: 2023-05-05 11:01:40.849000 Fragment with Satyr and Maenad, 300s. Egypt, Byzantine period, 4th century. Undyed linen and dyed wool; plain weave ground with tapestry weave; overall: 139 x 86.4 cm (54 3/4 x 34 in.); mounted: 153.6 x 100.4 x 3.9 cm (60 1/2 x 39 1/2 x 1 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1975.6 title: Fragment with Satyr and Maenad title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 300s creation date earliest: 300 creation date latest: 399 current location: 106A Migration Period & Coptic creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Egypt, Byzantine period, 4th century technique: undyed linen and dyed wool; plain weave ground with tapestry weave department: Textiles collection: T - Coptic type: Textile find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 139 x 86.4 cm (54 3/4 x 34 in.); Mounted: 153.6 x 100.4 x 3.9 cm (60 1/2 x 39 1/2 x 1 9/16 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: the satyr is identified by an inscription above his head. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, 3rd - 7th Century opening date: 1977-11-18T05:00:00 The Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, 3rd - 7th Century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (November 18, 1977-February 12, 1978). title: Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art opening date: 2007-05-10T00:00:00 Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. National Museum of Bavaria, Munich, Germany (May 10-September 16, 2007); J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA (October 30, 2007-January 20, 2008). title: Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity opening date: 2016-02-25T00:00:00 Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity. Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, NY, New York, NY (February 25-May 22, 2016). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * Late antique and Early Christian Art. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (November 18, 1977-February 12, 1978).
Gallery 210 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 13-August 8, 2001); (February 4-August 5, 2002); (February 3-August 4, 2003); (February 3-August 11, 2004)
Gallery 106 textile rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 13, 2010-April 1, 2011); (September 14, 2011-March 26, 2012); (March 18-September 23, 2013); (March 17-September 22, 2014); (March 2-September 8, 2015); (May 1-October 30, 2017); (April 30-October 29, 2018); (April 29-August 9, 2019); (January 23, 2020-). --- PROVENANCE (Nicolas Koutoulakis, Conches-Geneva, Switzerland). date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: This tapestry ranks among the crowning achievements of 4th-century Egyptian textiles. These sculptural figures originally stood with many others under an arcade more than 24 feet wide. Halos proclaim the special status of the graceful satyr, identified in Greek, who is dressed in a spotted skin standing beside an elegant nude maenad adorned with gold jewelry. Satyrs and maenads were followers of Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, whose cult flourished especially in Egypt among the educated of all religions. Presumably this extravagant hanging was commissioned for cultic or theatrical festivities. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Thomas, Thelma K., Jennifer Ball, Edward Bleiberg, Kathrin Colburn, Helen C. Evans, Christine Kondoleon, Brandie Ratliff, and Elizabeth Dospel Williams. Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity. 2016. page number: 26 url: Susan MacMillan Arensberg. "Dionysos: A Late Antique Tapestry." Boston Museum Bulletin 75 (1977): page number: p. 4-25 url: www.jstor.org/stable/4171613. Shepherd, Dorothy G. "A Late Classical Tapestry." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 63, no. 10 (1976): page number: p. 307-13, fig. 1, 3, 9, cover illus url: www.jstor.org/stable/25152664. Weitzmann, Kurt. "The Late Roman World." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 35, no. 2 (1977): 2-96. page number: p. 24, no. 2, color p. 25 url: doi:10.2307/3259887. The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 36 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n56 Weitzmann, Kurt. Age of Spirituality: Late Antique and Early Christian Art, Third to Seventh Century : Catalogue of the Exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, November 19, 1977, Through February 12, 1978. New York: The Metropolitan Museum, 1979. page number: p. 144-46, no. 124, illus p. 145 url: Rutschowscaya, Marie-Hélène. Coptic Fabrics. Paris, France: Adam Biro, 1990. page number: p. 87 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1991. page number: Reproduced: p. 13 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1991/page/n28 Cleveland Museum of Art, and Holger A. Klein. Sacred Gifts and Worldly Treasures: Medieval Masterworks from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2007. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 40-41, no. 3 url: Thomas, Thelma K. "Material Meaning in Late Antiquity." In Designing Identity: The Power of Textiles in Late Antiquity. Thelma K. Thomas, ed. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2016. page number: Reproduced: p. 26, fig. 1-1.5 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.6/1975.6_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.6/1975.6_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1975.6/1975.6_full.tif