Fragments of Inscription Bands

before 1982

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Title: Fragments of Inscription Bands
Date Created: before 1982
Physical Dimensions: Overall: 72.5 x 133 cm (28 9/16 x 52 3/8 in.)
Provenance: (Goumaronart, Inc., New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art), The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Type: Textile
Rights: CC0
External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.299
Medium: Silk: compound tabby on tabby ground
Inscriptions: two parallel inscription bands (1966.135 and 1982.299) with Kufic lettering in dark brown on a lighter brown ground run the warp direction of the cream colored textile with the lettering oriented at right angles to the warp: ". . . sallá Allah 'a[layhi wa-alihi] nabi(an in superscript) wa-bi-al-Qur'an kitab(an in superscript) wa-bi-al-Ka'bah [qiblat(an in superscript)] wa-bi-al-a' immah al-ithná 'ashar 'alayhim al-salam i[mam(an in superscript)]
Department: Textiles
Culture: Iraq or Iran, in the style of the Buyid period (945–1055)
Credit Line: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
Collection: T - Islamic
Accession Number: 1982.299

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