id:			149059
accession number:	1977.188
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1977.188
updated:		2024-03-26 01:59:41.135000

Tiraz of Caliph ‘Abd al-Rahman III, from the reliquary of Santa Librada, Cathedral of Seqüenza, 941–42. Spain, Cordoba, Spanish Umayyad period (756–1031). Linen; silk: embroidery; overall: 18.2 x 117.1 cm (7 3/16 x 46 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Anonymous Gift 1977.188

title:				Tiraz of Caliph ‘Abd al-Rahman III, from the reliquary of Santa Librada, Cathedral of Seqüenza
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creation date:			941–42
creation date earliest:		941
creation date latest:		942
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creditline:			Anonymous Gift
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culture:	Spain, Cordoba, Spanish Umayyad period (756–1031)
technique:	Linen; silk: embroidery
department:	Textiles
collection:	T - Islamic
type:		Embroidery
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measurements: Overall: 18.2 x 117.1 cm (7 3/16 x 46 1/8 in.)
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	inscription:	only the traces of a very large-scale elaborately foliated Kufic inscription preserved, largely in the form of needle holes but with a few small areas where the stitches are intact.  This is approximately the second half of the original full inscription, which measured well over two meters long; the bulk of the original textile with the first half of the inscription was formerly preserved in the Cathedral of Siquenza.  As preserved on the two fragments, the full inscription reads: "[Commander of the Be]lievers al-Masir li-Din al-Muslimin, may God support him!  That which was made through the agency of Durri, his servant, in the year thirty and three hundred."
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries
	opening date:   1991-11-26T05:00:00
	<i>Textiles from Egypt, Syria and Spain: 7th through 15th centuries</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 26-June 6, 1991).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	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 and Mentioned: P. 172-173, fig. 5.3 and fig. 5.4
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