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Hunters on Horseback
late 700's - 800's
The Cleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, United States
The Byzantine theme of the hunt is depicted with archers on horseback and the game beneath. The colors and border decorations are very similar to the adjacent Alexander the Great roundel (1959.123), indicating they were woven either in the same workshop or copying a fashion. The archers face each other because the design was based on costlier Byzantine silks with mirror-image symmetry.
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- Title: Hunters on Horseback
- Date Created: late 700's - 800's
- Physical Dimensions: Overall: 29.4 x 14 cm (11 9/16 x 5 1/2 in.)
- Provenance: Mrs. Paul Mallon, Paris.
- Type: Textile
- Rights: CC0
- External Link: https://clevelandart.org/art/1982.102
- Medium: Plain weave and tapestry weave; undyed linen, dyed wool
- Department: Textiles
- Culture: Egypt, Islamic Abbasid period, late 8th to 9th century
- Credit Line: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund
- Collection: T - Coptic
- Accession Number: 1982.102
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